Mughal

The guidebooks tell one story of Delhi: the beautiful Mughal gardens and the city snapped from a rickshaw.

Events are held on the sprawling grounds of the Diggi Palace, under great Mughal-style tents decorated with colorful streamers.

None the less there are two ways in which Mughal painting, as developed under Akbar, contributed to the Krishna story.

In none of these provincial Mughal pictures is there any feeling for Krishna as God or even as a character.

Krishna in a flowing dhoti wanders in meadows gay with feathered trees while Radha and her confidante appear in Mughal garb.

From then onwards Mughal painting, as it developed under the emperor Shah Jahan, concentrated on more courtly themes.

An arrow transfixes his right foot while the hunter, dressed as a courtier in Mughal dress, is shown releasing the bow.