Hiranyakashipu命令他的恶魔战士威胁并伤害Prahlada。《小薄伽梵曲》系列的预备图 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Hiranyakashipu命令他的恶魔战士威胁并伤害Prahlada。《小薄伽梵曲》系列的预备图
品名（英）	Hiranyakashipu commands his demon warriors to threaten and injure Prahlada. Preparatory drawing from the ‘Small Bhagavata Purana’ Series
入馆年号	2021年，2021.49
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Manaku【1715 至 1770】【印度人】
创作年份	公元 1730 - 公元 1760
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	图像: 8 11/16 × 12 5/8 英寸 (22 × 32 厘米)
介绍（中）	从1725年到1760年，著名的印度画家马纳库活跃在印度西北部山区喜马偕尔邦古勒的小宫廷。马纳库以描绘两部伟大的印度宗教文学巨著而闻名，这两部巨著分别是史诗《罗摩衍那》和《薄伽梵书》，后者是一部以各种伪装庆祝对毗湿奴虔诚的不朽作品。《薄伽梵书》第7卷在很大程度上讲述了化身纳拉西姆哈击败恶魔（阿修罗）国王希兰雅卡希普的传说。这幅图是为《薄伽梵书》的一个这样的版本的Narasimha传说对开本序列的预备研究。恶魔折磨奉献者（巴克提）普拉拉达的场景令人回味地捕捉到了文本的情绪，年轻王子的身材矮小，站在那里，双手虔诚地举在一起，用孟加拉语恳求毗湿奴的保护。他周围是三个怪诞恶魔的身影，其中两个挥舞着矛尖三叉戟，执行着坐在宫殿里的恶魔国王的指示。
介绍（英）	The famed Indian painter Manaku was active in the small court of Guler, Himachal Pradesh, in the hills of north-western India, from ca. 1725 to ca. 1760. Manaku is renowned for having illustrated two great corpuses of Indian religious literature, the epic Ramayana and the Bhagavata Purana, the latter a monumental work celebrating devotion to Vishnu in his various guises. Book 7 of the Bhagavata Purana is in large part devoted to recounting the legend of the avatar Narasimha’s vanquishing of the demon (asura) king Hiranyakashipu. This drawing is a preparatory study for a Narasimha-legend sequence of folios for one such edition of the Bhagavata Purana. The scene of the demons tormenting the devotee (bhakti) Prahlada evocatively captures the mood of the text, the diminutive figure of the youthful prince standing, his hands raised together reverently in anjali to plead for Vishnu’s protection. Around him are the looming figures of three grotesque demons, two of whom wield spear-tipped tridents, carrying out the instructions of the demon-king, seated enthroned in his palace.