A four-armed Krishna rides on a gopi-elephant; a steel engraving, 1850's, with modern hand coloring

Source: ebay, Dec. 2006




A photo from the 1890's, apparently of child actors performing in a Krishna-lila

Source: ebay, May 2010



Early bazaar art printed in Germany, 1880's

Source: ebay, Oct. 2008

Another four-armed ("chatur-bhuj") vision of the adorable Krishna, with his irresistible flute (bazaar art, c.1910's)

Source: ebay, Nov. 2006




Krishna charms the gopis, in a print from the Ravi Varma Press, 1910's

Source: ebay, Dec. 2008

Another vision of a four-armed Krishna, surrounded by gopis (bazaar art, c.1920's)

Source: ebay, Nov. 2006

"Ras-krida": the gopis and gopas dance what looks like a bhangra (bazaar art, c.1910's)

Source: ebay, Jan. 2007

The gopis and gopas frolic in the forest; modern bazaar art, c.1980's

Source: ebay, Feb. 2008

A lyrical moonlit evening (bazaar art, early 1900's)

Source: ebay, Nov. 2006

Radha has seized the flute: a carved and painted ivory plaque, inlaid with gems, suited for home worship (late 1900's)

Source: ebay, Nov. 2006

During the ras lila, every gopi thinks that Krishna is dancing with her alone (bazaar art, c.1980's); *a much larger scan*

Source: ebay, Jan. 2008


*An unusual modern bazaar-art treatment: Krishna as sensuous, solitary, delicate, and not at all blue*

Source: ebay, June 2012

Krishna and Radha entwined, surrounded by gopis, in a modern Orissan pata-chitra painting; *the whole painting*; *a closer look at some of the gopis*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2001

"Ras Leela," a modern Madhubani painting by Dhirendra Jha

Source: http://www.exoticindia.com/product/DG49/
(downloaded Apr. 2006)

The cosmic ras lila in a modern bazaar art print

Source: ebay, June 2008

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