Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Trial of the Princes: Nanda Lal Bose’s Illustration
Original caption: The Trial of the Princes
Bose arranges the martial display as a meeting of performers and watchers. The princes’ gestures and weapons are measured against the stillness of the audience, giving the scene a sense of public judgement. In the collection’s Mahabharata account Drona requests a tournament after completing the princes’ education, and a prepared ground, galleries and a hall for the royal women make it a civic occasion. The demonstration brings private training into the open. Rivalry among the pupils is no longer only a matter of practice: reputation, lineage and the divisions that will shape the epic become visible before a crowd.
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Nanda Lal Bose. "The Trial of the Princes: Nanda Lal Bose’s Illustration" [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 167. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/hindu-trial-princes
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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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Nanda Lal Bose. The Trial of the Princes: Nanda Lal Bose’s Illustration. Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Scan leaf 167. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/hindu-trial-princes