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Battle Between Ghatotkacha and Karna, illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Mahabharata
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This is a detached folio from a manuscript of the Mahabharata. The text is written in black ink in Devanagari script on both sides, and on the recto it surrounds a painting. The painting depicts a climactic moment in the Kurukshetra war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Specifically, this is the battle between the magically-powered and comparatively coarse-featured Ghatotkacha (upper right, identified by a label in the margin above) and Karna, the best fighter on the Kaurava side.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
George Bickford (by 1991 ).
Stuart Cary Welch (by 1999-2008 ); to his estate (2008-2009 ) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.
Notes:
Collector George Bickford died October 14 1991. Object was part of long-term loan to Museum in 1999.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Stuart Cary Welch Collection Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of George Bickford
Title: Battle Between Ghatotkacha and Karna, illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Mahabharata
Description:
This is a detached folio from a manuscript of the Mahabharata.
The text is written in black ink in Devanagari script on both sides, and on the recto it surrounds a painting.
The painting depicts a climactic moment in the Kurukshetra war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas.
Specifically, this is the battle between the magically-powered and comparatively coarse-featured Ghatotkacha (upper right, identified by a label in the margin above) and Karna, the best fighter on the Kaurava side.
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