Kishangarh Govardhan
A Kishangarh miniature of Govardhan Puja: the hill under a golden evening sky, cows at its foot and the annakut heaped before it, with Ganesh and your family photo in a lotus medallion.
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Kishangarh painting comes from the small Rajput kingdom of Kishangarh, north-east of Ajmer in Rajasthan. Its golden age was the middle of the eighteenth century, under Raja Sawant Singh, a devotee of Krishna who wrote poems under the name Nagari Das, and his master painter Nihal Chand. They gave Radha a face of their own: long and slender, with sharply arched eyebrows, lotus-petal eyes that curve upward and a fine pointed nose, as in the famous Bani Thani. Kishangarh pictures set Radha and Krishna in wide, lush landscapes of deep green trees, white marble pavilions and the lotus lake of Gundalao, under golden evening skies.
This film paints Govardhan Puja that way: Govardhan hill under a golden evening sky, cows resting at its foot and the annakut, a hill of rice and sweets, heaped before it. A woman painted in the Bani Thani manner walks up with a thali of lamps and sweets for the annakut, and Ganesh and your family photo sit in round lotus medallions. The paintings are drawn in the Kishangarh style for this film; they are not by the painters of Kishangarh.
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