Upper stele with hand for Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan
c. 600
- Medium
- Sandstone
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 104.8 x 69.2 x 10.8 cm (41 1/4 x 27 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Southern Cambodia, Takeo Province, Phnom Da
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift from the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia
- 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
This masterwork of early Cambodian sculpture shows the Hindu god Krishna effortlessly holding aloft a mountain to protect his fellow villagers and herds from torrential storms sent by a jealous old god. It is one of eight monumental monolithic figures recovered from a two-peaked mountain in the floodplains of the Mekong River delta, on the outskirts of the ancient urban center of Angkor Borei.
