Digital Rare Book:
The Prem Ságar or The Ocean of Love, being a history of Krishin, according to the tenth chapter of the Bhágavat of Vyasadev
Translated into Hindi from the Braj Bhakha of Chaturbhuj Mishra by Lallu Lal
By Edward B Eastwick
Printed for the Hon. East India Company by Stephen Austin, London -1851
In Hindi

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Image:
This painting done in extremely fine work shows Krishna raising Mount Govadhan for Ragamal series - 1640.

This painting is an illustration to the Hindu text the Bhagavata Purana. It relates specifically to the section dealing with the events in the early life of the Hindu god Krishna. Here he is shown raising up Mount Govardhan on one finger-tip. He is doing this to shelter his friends the cowherds from a great storm unleashed by the god Indra, who was jealous of Krishna's powers. Indra's elephant mount appears in the top right of the painting, although Indra himself is no longer visible. The style of the painting suggests that the work was painted in Bundi in Rajasthan in about 1640. It shows a fusion of Rajasthani, especially Mewar, styles with the new realism that artists working at the Mughal court had introduced.

Source: V&A, London