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Krishna Exacts a Toll from the Milkmaids: Dana-Lila, from a Bhagavata Purana
c. 1600
- Medium
- gum tempera and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Page: 21.6 x 29.2 cm (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bikaner
- 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
Krishna can be seen here teasing the girls who bring pots of milk and yogurt to the Brahmin priests. Thinking it a waste of time to feed the Brahmins, Krishna waylays them, pretending to be the owner of the land where they are walking. He threatens to topple their pots if they don’t pay him a toll. An exasperated cow herder follows.
