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  • Panjabi Manuscript 255
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 35V
  • Panjabi Manuscript 255
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 5 verso - 6 recto
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 55R
  • The mahatmya of the second adhyaya. The bottom third of the painting depicts the frame story of Devasusara of Purana. The top two-thirds illustrate the embedded story of Gadia the goatherd: one of his goats chases away a lion, the ascetic Bala explains the meaning of the events, and Gadia and his animals ascend to Visnu's celestial dwelling Vaikuntha in their divine bodies
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 44V
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 3 verso - 4 recto
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 33V
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 4V
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti; folio 13 recto
  • Panjabi Manuscript 255
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 20V
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 31V
  • The narrative setting of the mahatmyas. Laksmi asks Visnu about the greatness of the Bhagvadgita as he reclines on the serpent Sesanaga in the cosmic ocean. The four headed god Brahma is seated on the lotus that emerges from Visnu's navel. The scalloped arch and rolled-up curtain at the yop of the picture evoke the symbols of temple icons
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 28 verso - 29 recto
  • Panjabi manuscript 255
  • Krsna enchants the natural and human worlds with his flute. Standing in the tribhangi or 'three bends' posture, Krsna plays the flute as enchanted gopis, cattle, and birds look on. A clump of trees act as a sheltering umbrella, the symbol of gods and kings in Indic iconography.
  • Panjabi Manuscript 255
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 39 recto
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 56 verso - 57 recto
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 33 recto
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 47V
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 29 recto
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 40V
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 60R
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 51 recto
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 60 verso
  • Panjabi Manuscript 255
  • The mahatmya of the tenth adhyaya. The servants of Shiva find a dead Brahman in the city of Kasi on the auspicious day of Ekadasi. Shiva explains that by reciting the tenth aghyaya of the Bhagvadgita, the Brahman had once saved a swan and an apsara (fairy) who had been turned into a lotus. Shiva's attendants take the Brahman to Shiva's heaven