Jagat Mata Go Laxmi（世界好运奶牛妈妈） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Jagat Mata Go Laxmi（世界好运奶牛妈妈）
品名（英）	Jagat Mata Go-Laxmi (World Mother Cow of Good Fortune)
入馆年号	2020年，2020.17
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1885
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 12 × 16 英寸 (30.5 × 40.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	印度对奶牛的崇敬是古老而复杂的，植根于次大陆早期定居的游牧时代。随着时间的推移，人们对奶牛的崇敬被赋予了正式的宗教表达，包括在《巴毗湿亚经》中。正是这个文本在印刷品中得到了视觉表达，并出现在图像的双重规则边界中。照片显示，Rani Dhanadevi正在表演奶牛puja，而Bharat Mata（印度母亲）正在挤奶。站在巴拉特·玛塔附近的是一名印度人、一名帕西人、一名穆斯林和一名英国男孩，他们各自举起杯子接受印度母亲的牛奶。神牛在身上画了印度教神和女神的图像，这是一种古老的崇拜形式的延续，在这种崇拜中，藏红花染色的手印被应用于动物身上，通常用于祭祀，早期佛教徒甚至将手印应用于佛塔在19世纪末，当民族主义在独立前的印度兴起时，巴拉特·玛塔（印度母亲）被拟人化为挤奶的少女，周围是不同信仰的人在享受牛奶，这塑造了一个民族团结的形象。这幅版画体现了支持印度民族主义的强烈情绪，这一信息对当时的印度人来说是显而易见的，如果他们的英国行政人员不容易理解的话。
介绍（英）	Reverence for the cow in India is ancient and complex, rooted in a pastoral age of early settlement in the subcontinent. Over time, reverence for the cow was given formal religious expression, including in the Bhavishya Purana. It is this text that has been given visual expression in this print and appears in the double-rule border of the image. The print shows Rani Dhanadevi performing a cow puja while Bharat Mata (Mother India) milks the cow. Standing near Bharat Mata are a Hindu, a Parsi, a Muslim, and a British boy each holding up their cups to receive the milk of Mother India. The divine cow has painted on her body images of Hindu gods and goddesses, in continuation of an ancient form of worship in which saffron-dyed hand-prints were applied to animals, usually intended for sacrifice, a practice even take up by early Buddhists with the application of palm-prints to stupas. In the late 19th century, when nationalism was on the rise in pre-independent India, the personification of Bharat Mata (Mother India) as a maiden milking the holy cow, surrounded by people of different faiths enjoying the milk, created an image of national unity. This print embodies powerful sentiments supportive of Indian nationalism, a message immediately apparent to Indians of the day, if not readily grasped by their British administrators.