Hand Carved Wooden Dancing Krishna Sculpture with Kalia Serpent
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P1090625
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Descriptions :
Lord Krishna castigating the ego of the mighty snake – Kalia
The incidence the painting depicts is called ‘Kalia Dalan’. A multi-headed serpent called Kalia along with his hundred wives had taken refuse in Yamuna river near Vrindavan, the village where Krishna grew up as a child. Its venom had caused havoc killing all the cattle that used to go to the river to drink water, all the birds that flew over it and all trees that were there on the bank of the river. Kalia had a bloated ego because of the powers that he possessed.
Krishna in a very playful way climbs on top of the hood of the great serpent as the serpent rises above water.
This whole incident is a metaphor for the Hinduism’s philosophy of giving up one ego and surrendering to supreme lord. Complete surrender is a way of attaining Moksha.
