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"description": "This portrait of a demon king depicts him listening to the report of one of his ministers. He may be hearing the news that his daughter Usha has been secretly receiving Krishna\u2019s grandson Aniruddha in her bedchamber.
The artist has depicted Bana with his 20 arms emerging like tentacles from his body. The members of his multicolored demon court are imaginatively rendered combinations of beasts and humans. In the background, demons harass holy men by burning their huts and chasing them away from their settlements.",
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"citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw J. Indian Art from the George P. Bickford Collection: Catalog. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1986.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 2 (February 1987): 38\u201379.",
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