Viswāmitra rejecting his daughter Sakuntalā's birth. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

  • Ravi Varma, 1848-1906
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26597i
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Viswāmitra denying the birth of his daughter with Menakā. The composition served as the model for a panel on a silver 'kamandalu' (water vessel) in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Dehejia, op. cit., p. 982)

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[Bombay] : [Anant Shivaji Desai Motibazar]; [Karla Lonavla [near Poona] : Ravi Varma Press, [after 1900] : Karla Lonavla (Ravi Varma Press)

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1 print : oleograph

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Birth of Shakuntala. Registered no. 13. Ravi Varma. Lettering also in Devanagari script

References note

Vidya J. Dehejia, 'Imagery by Rajah Ravi Varma on Raj silver', The Burlington magazine, October 2022, 164: 976-985 (this print pp. 984-985)

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Wellcome Collection 26597i

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