The handsome Krishna sprays a colourful jet of water on His fair Radha. The gossamer odhni She draws over Her torso to protect Herself fails miserably to suffice Her purpose. They are looking into each other’s eyes with gazes full of desire. Their respective angavastram and dupatta fly about them, suggestive of cheerful motion.
This Radha-Krishna painting is the pichwai form of art. The word ‘pichwai’ refers to the fabric-canvas paintings hung in local Shrinath (a form of Krishna) temples that visually retell the life of Krishna to illiterate devotees.
Radha and Krishna are in the marble-walled courtyard of a magical palace that has sprung up in the woods surrounding Vrindavan. They are accompanied by a few other cowherds like Krishna and, of course, the farmyard beauties (milkmaids or gopiyaan) of Vrindavan. They are all engaged in playing Holi. Some of them are beating folk instruments of percussion.
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