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❴Reading❵ ➺ The vrindavani vastra Author Richard Blurton – Liversite.co.uk The Vrindavani Vastra is the most important surviving example of an Assamese devotional textile This beautiful and rare textile now in the British Museum was produced in the late seventeenth century i The vrindavani vastra is the most important surviving example of an Assamese devotional textile This beautiful and rare textile now in the British Museum was produced in the late seventeenth century in the wake The vrindavani ePUB ✓ of the remarkable outflow of Krishna veneration resulting from the ministry of the great eastern Indian saint Sankaradava died Nine metres in length it is made up of twelve strips all now sown together and woven with captioned scenes from the life of Krishna as recorded in the tenth century text the Bhagavata Purana and elaborated in the dramas of Sankaradeva The author looks at the art techniue and iconography of the textile and also place it within its wider religious cultural and geographical contexts He traces too its fascinating history and its journey from Assam to London.

Richard Blurton