Tales of Krishna’s Childhood by Dr. Nandita Krishna
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Presentation made by Dr. Nandita Krishna at the International Seminar on Mahabharata organized by Draupadi Trust in April 2012 at New Delhi.
Tales of Krishna’s Childhood by Dr. Nandita Krishna
- 1. TALES OF KRISHNA’S CHILDHOOD GOPAS AND THEIR COWS
- 2. BABY KRISHNA DRAGGING THE HEAVY MORTAR
- 3. KRISHNA DEFEATING TWO ASURAS
- 4. KRISHNA KILLING A DEMON
- 6. ANIRUDDHA BOUND BY BANA’S SNAKE ROPES. Central door of the southern gopura. 3RD ENCLOSURE
- 7. KRISHNA FIGHTING BANA TO RESCUE HIS GRANDSON. Central door of the northern gopura. 3rd enclosure
- 8. DEVAS VERSUS ASURAS DEVAS versus ASURASDEVAS versus ASURASS versus ASURA KRISHNA ON GARUDA FIGHTS THE ASURA BANA
- 9. KRISHNA LIFTING MOUNT GOVARDHANA
- 10. KRISHNA LIFTING MOUNT GOVARDANA
- 12. KRISHNA KILLING CANURA AND MUSHTIKA
- 13. KRISHNA KILLING KAMSA ANGKOR WAT BANTEAY SREI
- 14. NORTH LIBRARY EAST PEDIMENT, ANGKOR WAT. EPISODE FROM MAHABHARATA . INDRA TRIES TO PUT OUT A FIRE IN THE KHANDAVA FOREST BY SENDING RAIN. KRISHNA’S ARROWS PREVENT THE WATER REACHING THE GROUND
- 15. VISHNU IN HIS HORSE INCARNATION AS HAYAGRIVA HOLDS THE HEADS OF THE DEMONS MADHU AND KAITABHA. West lintel of the inner entrance pavilion
- 18. MULTI-FACED IMAGES, BAYON, ANGKOR THOM
- 19. WHO IS THE 4-FACED FIGURE OF ANGKOR THOM? JAYAVARMAN? PROBABLY, IN ORDER TO BE IDENTIFIED WITH… 2. BRAHMA? – Unlikely. No stories or attributes of the Creator are associated with the 4 faces. 3. SHIVA? – Likely, because Bayon was a Shiva temple, but no other Shaivite attributes. 4. BUDDHA – LOKESHVARA? Likely, because Jayavarman became a Buddhist,
- 20. THE 4-FACES TOP MOUNT MERU, WHICH MAKES UP THE 5 GATES OF ANGKOR THOM. IN THE STORY OF THE SAMUDRA MANTHANA, MERU IS THE CHURNING STICK. IT IS THE STORY OF VISHNU’S KURMA AVATARA
- 21. THE 4-FACED MERU IS FLANKED BY THE DEVAS AND ASURAS PULLING THE 7-HEADED SNAKE ROPE VASUKI
- 22. IN ANGKOR WAT AND ALL RELIEFS OF THE SAMUDRA MANTHANA, VISHNU STANDS ABOVE THE TORTOISE KURMA, WHO IS THE CHURNING STICK
- 23. 4- FACED HEADS MOST LIKELY TO BELONG TO VISHNU • • ON THE WALLS OF THE BAYON IN ANGKOR THOM, THERE ARE SCENES OF A 4-FACED, MULTI-HEADED VISHNU STEALING THE AMRITA DURING THE SAMUDRA MANTHANA. • THE CULT OF VISHNU HAD OBVIOUSLY ATTAINED GREAT INFLUENCE THAT KINGS IDENTIFIED WITH HIM. IN THE WAR WITH BANA, KRISHNA HAS MANY FACES AND HEADS
- 24. • THE MAHABHARATA REACHED ENORMOUS POPULARITY IN SOUTH EAST ASIA. IT BECAME LARGER THAN LIFE • EVEN TODAY, THE CITY CENTRES OF JAKARTA, CAPITAL OF INDONESIA, AND BALI HAVE A HUGE SCULPTURE OF THE BHAGAVAD GITA. • DANCE, DRAMAS AND PUPPET SHOWS ON THE MAHABHARATA KEEP THE STORY ALIVE AS AN
- 25. ARJUNA VIJAYA - BALI
- 26. ARJUNA VIJAYA - JAKARTA