Lord Krishna is known as “The Destructor of Evil or “The Dark One.” His whole life was chronicled mostly throughout the Bhagavad Gita and also the Mahabarata and the Bhagavad Purana so many stories are known of him. He was depicted in paintings in all stages of his life. As a child, Krishna used to steal butter and play tricks of this sort, so is painted and s

culpted doing these things but was still seen as having an innocent and boyish quality and is painted as such. His depictions portray him in either black or dark blue skin unlike most of the other deities. He is shown in many styles—sometimes as a child holding a butter-cake other times as a teen dancing with the cow herding girls. As Krishna grew, he became famously attractive and charming, which made him popular with women. One woman in particular became the most prominent among all the other cowgirls—Radha. Krishna is almost always seen with Radha on his side. Even when there are other girls present in a painting, Radha is always next to him as she was his favorite. Krishna was also a skilled musician and is often seen in paintings playing a flute “at the sound of which nature pauses to listen, storms are calmed, rivers flow calmly and maidens are roused” (Chandra 180). Sometimes he is seen with a cow or his pet bull, mostly during his childhood years.

The story of Lord Krishna’s birth was an extraordinary one. He was born into a clan called Yadav, where his father was the

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