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Krishna Observes Radha "Half Hidden, Half Revealed" (Illustration to the "Sat Sai" of Bihari Lal Chaube)

Artist Unknown
Culture Indian
Title Krishna Observes Radha "Half Hidden, Half Revealed" (Illustration to the "Sat Sai" of Bihari Lal Chaube)
Date 1775–1795
Medium Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions Overall: 7 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. (18.7 x 13 cm)
Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 80.9.4

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This is an illustration to a collection of love poems called the Sat Sai (Seven Hundred Verses) by the poet Bihari Lal Chaube (1595–1664). The young woman, Radha, has visited Krishna on the pretext of borrowing curds for fermenting milk. The poem for this miniature is as follows:

The unmatched brilliance of her earrings shines through her thin garment;
It seems as if a leafy branch of the Tree of Paradise is glittering on the ocean.
She looked at me smilingly, after turning back from the door-step;
She came to take curds, but she planted her love in my heart.


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