# Krishna Vishvarupa

- Date: ca. 1740
- Medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W (overall): 19.8 × 11.7 cm (7 13/16 × 4 5/8 in)
- Culture: Himalayan peoples
- Credit line: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/S2018.1.3/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/d3f37af4ef53d48f543cbddb76e07f8d.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The Bhagavad Gita (200 BCE-300 CE) is one of Hinduism's most sacred texts, and Krishna's manifestation as the cosmos is its profound core. The text presents a spectrum of doctrines and practices within a framework of personal devotion (bhakti) to Krishna. The eleventh chapter describes Krishna in his infinite cosmic form, vishvarupa, which encompasses all of time and "the whole world, moving and unmoving," filling "all the horizons," and "brushing the sky."