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Śaunaka

In this miniature artist has narrated the opening episode of the epic, in which the Mahabharata was first recited by rishi Vaisampayana and Maharishi Saunaka at the occasion of Sarpa Yajna or snake sacrifice for king Janamajeya in the Naimesha forest. Artist has also written the text in four lines at the upper space of the painting. The whole painting had divided in three parts. At upper space flo

mughal artists. · From Birla razmnama dated 1605. · CC BY-SA 4.0

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linguist · poet

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