Yudhishthira and Draupadi Give Away Their Possessions to Brahmans
From Our Collections Razmnama Leaf Collection
Item Info
Item No: mcom00101
Title: Yudhishthira and Draupadi Give Away Their Possessions to Brahmans
Additional Title: Razmnama (Book of War)
Media Type:
Manuscripts
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:
The subject of this painting is the Pandava leader Yudhishthira and his wife Draupadi’s dispersal of their possessions to the Brahmans prior to their twelve-year exile. However, the artist’s primary focus is clearly the observation of daily life. Cattle are herded through a crowd teeming with activity. Figures gesture expressively and offer each other meaningful glances. Shravan, the artist to whom this painting is ascribed, was one of the dozen or so artists who worked on both this 1598–99 Razmnama and an earlier, more luxurious version made for the Mughal Emperor Akbar during the 1580s.
Region/County: Region/County:Northern India, Mughal court
Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1599
Call Number: Lewis M 10
Subjects
Yudhishthira and Draupadi Give Away Their Possessions to Brahmans
Razmnama Leaf, Yudhishthira and Draupadi Give Away Their Possessions to Brahmans 
Razmnama Leaf, Reverse