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"title": "Bhima\u2019s consultation with the astrologer, from a Nala-Damayanti",
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"title": "Indian Gallery 242 Rotation \u2013 April-November 2017",
"description": "Indian Gallery 242 Rotation \u2013 April-November 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 10-November 6, 2017).",
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"did_you_know": "This drawing is part of a series of forty-eight, most of which are held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.",
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"description": "In the central pavilion, King Bhima, father of Princess Damayanti, receives favorable signs from his astrologers for her marriage to her beloved, Nala. In the upper left corner, King Bhima tells the good news to his daughter, while messengers inform Nala in the upper right. This lyrical series depicts scenes from an extended romantic poem of the 1100s, based on an episode from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.
The plan to create a painted series illustrating the story was not fully realized. Forty-seven paintings were completed, but another 65, including this page, remain unfinished, revealing underdrawings and the first application of color.",
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"citation": "Eastman, Alvan Clark. The Nala-Damayant\u012b Drawings. A Study of a Portfolio of Drawings Made for R\u0101j\u0101 Sa\u1e41s\u0101r Cand of K\u0101\u1e45gr\u0101 (1774-1823), Illustrating an Early Indian Romance. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1959.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. V",
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"citation": "Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 121",
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"citation": "Peyton, Allysa B., and Katherine Anne Paul. Arts of South Asia: Cultures of Collecting. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2019.",
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