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Krishna Abhisarika Nayika, from a Rasikapriya manuscript
c. 1615–25
- Medium
- Gum tempera on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Miniature: 12.1 x 12.7 cm (4 3/4 x 5 in.)
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Amber
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Two women quarrel outside a house while the Nayaka (hero protagonist) watches from a safe distance. The woman wearing a red scarf appears to be the Nayaka’s wife or beloved, who has just realized her partner’s infidelity. In a fit of anger, she strangles the other woman, who would be the Nayaka’s mistress, and raises a leg to kick her.
