Art, Symbol & Imagination
Radha and Krishna: Khitindra Nath Mazumdar
Original caption: Radha and Krishna
Mazumdar draws Radha and Krishna close together beneath the dark shelter of trees. Krishna’s flute and the inward tilt of the faces give the composition a mood of absorption rather than public ceremony. The surrounding account describes the cowherd women drawn into the forest by the flute, the dance of love, and the painful search after Krishna withdraws. Radha’s privileged closeness is itself tested by separation. The plate offers an intimate visual counterpart to a narrative in which desire, pride and longing repeatedly transform the relation between the beloved figure and those who seek him.
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Khitindra Nath Mazumdar. "Radha and Krishna: Khitindra Nath Mazumdar" [source caption]. In Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists, Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Original scan, 1914, George G. Harrap & Co.. Source scan leaf 287. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/hindu-radha-krishna
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Title from the printed caption. Editorial description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Artist credited in the printed list of illustrations. Full source leaf and the adjacent narrative reviewed; historical scan colour and texture retained.
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Khitindra Nath Mazumdar. Radha and Krishna: Khitindra Nath Mazumdar. Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Scan leaf 287. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/hindu-radha-krishna