The Sleeping Shatrajit Murdered by Satadhanva, from a Bhagavata Purana

Object Details

• School/Tradition

  Pre-Mughal School

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of Mughal India (2004) (August 21, 2004 to February 6, 2005)

  Masterworks of Indian Painting (December 13, 1997 to June 13, 1998)

  The Arts of South Asia (May 13, 1985 to December 2, 1985)

  The Imperial Image: Painting for the Mughal Court (September 25, 1981 to 30 March 1982)

  Indian Art (January 1, 1963 to January 28, 1981)

• Origin

  Delhi-Agra, North India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1520s, 1510s

• Place

  Delhi-Agra, India

• Topic

  Water, South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Sleeping, Palace, Turtles, Dance, Bhagavata Purana, Murder, Sanskrit

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings