Das Avataras, Ten Incarnations of Vishnu (verso), from a Kalighat album

Rama and Sita in the royal palace (recto), from a Kalighat album

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy

Krishna Lifts Mount Govardhan, from a Bhagavata Purana

Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Malwa

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Rama and Sita in the Royal Palace (recto); Radha and Krishna (verso)

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy

Diagrams of the Universe: The Two-and-a-Half Continents, the Universe in the Shape of a Person, and the Seven Levels of Hell

Western India, Gujarat

Krishna Playing the Flute and other Episodes from the Bhagavata Purana

India, Rajasthan, Malwa school, 17th century

‘Paithan’ (Chitrakathi) narrative painting

anonymous

Council of Heroes: Page from a Dispersed Mahabharata (Great Descendants of Mahabharata)

Unknown Artist

Kanhra Ragini

India, Rajasthan, Amber, early 18th Century

Pichvai of Shri Nathji

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Nathdwara

Draupadi Rescued from Abduction, from a Mahabharata

Northern India, Popular Mughal School, probably done at Bikaner

‘Paithan’ (Chitrakathi) narrative painting

anonymous

Illustration to the Mahabharata

India, Maharashtra, Paithan school, c. 1800