English: Here, Krishna is both a playful child and a substitute for Vishnu. In a vision, a sage saw Krishna lying on a banyan leaf upon the cosmic ocean, recalling the reclining Vishnu in the span between world periods. Bronzes such as this would be grouped with other images in a family shrine, where they would receive daily worship.
Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque. 2001-2003.
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