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Madhava Faces a Man Holding a Scale, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala

c. 1720
gum tempera and gold on paper
Image: 19.2 x 28.7 cm (7 9/16 x 11 5/16 in.); Page: 21.8 x 30.4 cm (8 9/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.95
Location: not on view
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This is the first page in the series, five of which are in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

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This folio is the first in the series. The composition is set in a geometrical palatial setting with four chambers. In one room, a man dressed in royal garb holds a scale in front of Madhava. A woman curiously observes the scene from the chamber above. In the middle, a priest sits reading a text, and a warrior occupies the space at the right, holding his shield.
Madhava Faces a Man Holding a Scale, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala

Madhava Faces a Man Holding a Scale, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala

c. 1720

India, Bilaspur

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