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English: A page of a Bhagavata Purana illustrated manuscript in Devanagari, supposedly prepared for Maharaja Pratap Simha of Jaipur (1779-1803). Cropped.

The page contains a passage from the 4th canto, 1st chapter, texts 21 (incomplete) through 25 (incomplete) of the Bhagavata Purana describing the encounter of the Vedic sage Atri Rishi and his wife Anasuya with the Trimurti: Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva seated on their respective vahanas.

The episode is depicted in the upper part of the image above the Devanagari script in Odishi style.
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Source Bhaktivedanta Research Centre, Kolkata
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