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Krishna watches the milkmaids circumambulating a sacred tree: The month of Jyestha (May–June), from a Barahmasa (The Twelve Months)

c. 1760
gum tempera on paper

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The birds and monkeys sitting around the tree are depicted in pairs, like loving couples.

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