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The Kangra School of Paintings is a born child of Kangra Valley, a former princely state, which patronized the Art, mainly under the leadership of Raja Govardhan Chand (1744-1773), a prince with a refined taste and a passion for paintings.
Art historian A.K. Coomaraswamy brought Kangra into Indian Art historical discourse after visiting Amritsar and Kangra and purchasing some paintings from a merchant.
‘These paintings are the visual record of a culture, the warm sensuous humanism of Vaishnavism, which found expression in poetry and ultimately in pictures of utmost delicacy and beauty. These paintings are fossils of culture, which, when studied and interpreted, tell us more about the historical past than the records of travellers.
The Nayika shown in this painting is Vasakasajja, who, desirous of union with her lord, stands at the doorstep waiting for him.
One of the most delightful paintings by the master-artist of the paintings of the Bhagavata Purana series, it shows ‘Love in Union’. Krishna was grazing cows along with the cowherd boys and Gopis when it started raining suddenly.