nanda and sudarshana (asian mythology and etc) created by unknown artist
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Torching of the Python Sudarshana, Folio from a Bhagavata Purana

Made circa 1600-1625
Opaque watercolor and ink on paper

One night Nanda, the foster-father of Krishna, and other cowherd men and families were sleeping in the Ambika Forest in Vrindavan after bathing in the Sarasvati River and worshiping Sadashiva, an omnipotent form of Shiva. While they slept a hungry python named Sudarshana began to swallow Nanda, who cried out in distress for Krishna. The cowherd men awoke and began beating the serpent with flaming torches to no avail. Krishna tapped the great snake with his foot and it immediately transformed back into its semidivine form. Sudarshana explained that he had mocked some homely sages and been cursed to take the form of a serpent (Bhagavata Purana 10:34:1-19).

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