In all the Lilas or divine plays of Sri Krishna, the ones involving Him and Maa Yashoda represent the tenderness of a mother towards her child, a beautiful human equation, best. Krishna, the divine form of the great Vishnu who incarnated to enjoy the various stages of human life, as an infant, sheltered in the shade of Maa Yashoda’s maternal love fills the heart of the devotee with “Vaatsalya”- affection towards the primordial preserver of the universe.
In this magnificent Tanjore painting of Krishna in the lap of Mother Yashoda, the viewer can feel a nurturing motherly warmth and a child’s faultless love enwrapping them. Bal Krishna with Maa Yashoda in this traditional Tanjore painting is a source of joy for the heart of the devotee as well as an art connoisseur.
Framed in a fine wooden frame, the Tanjore artwork shows Maa Yashoda in the center, surrounded by four women, probably her helpers. She is clad in a saree that has been covered in gold following the tradition of original Tanjore paintings by the artist. The ladies around her are shorter in height than her, an artistic device used to highlight her primacy in the painting.
Adorned with traditional South Indian jewelry that is decorated further with tiny red and green gems to highlight its beauty, Maa Yashoda is placed on a sturdy, wide platform. Her hand has a ball of butter which she offers dotingly to the Bal Krishna (baby Krishna), exquisitely dressed up in all sorts of bejeweled ornaments that outline the heavenly aura of Yashoda- Nandana- the child of Yashoda.
Bal Krishna with Maa Yashoda is one of the most well-perfected images in the Tanjore tradition, a fact that is visible in the faultless artistic definition of the mother-child duo in this marvelous painting. The ladies carry beautiful and interesting objects- a peacock, a lotus flower, and a parrot, things they might have brought as gifts, for amusing the newborn baby.
With the apple of their eyes and the sole center of everyone’s loving attention, Maa Yashoda is the archetypical proud mother, overwhelmed by the joy of holding her child close to her heart. On the floor of this Tanjore art, we see two diminutive child figures, one with a deer, caressing it, and the other with a cow. They are Krishna himself, shown indulged in benevolent Lilas. The scene is set inside a palace, as noted by the gorgeous red and green drapery in the background, a typical element in Tanjore paintings.
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