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品名（中）	亚绍达和戈帕尔
品名（英）	Yashoda and Gopal
入馆年号	2021年，2021.206
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1878 - 公元 1883
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 16 × 12 1/2 英寸 (40.6 × 31.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	在温达文村的婴儿克里希纳与养父母一起安全分娩后，他被亚绍达抚养长大，就好像她自己的孩子一样。在这张温柔的图像中，我们看到婴儿克里希纳（Bala-Krishna）顽皮地爬行，他的养母向他提供一团黄油以吸引他的注意力。这个场景讲述了克里希纳经常被描绘的主题，他利用他卓越的智力恶作剧地偷走黄油和酪乳，即使放在孩子够不到的地方。尽管克里希纳被安置在一个卑微的牧羊人村庄，以避免他的复仇叔叔暴君坎萨，在附近的马图拉篡夺王位，但背景不是印度乡村的环境。相反，环境是富丽堂皇的，人物被描绘在带有印度 - 伊斯兰建筑元素的内部，有柱子，尖顶拱门和华丽的窗帘门口。同样，Yashoda和婴儿克里希纳都拥有丰富的珠宝，克里希纳戴着带有三根孔雀羽毛的珍珠发带。他的养母穿着五颜六色的衣服，上面镶满了编织的金色边框。在这里，克里希纳被赋予了"Gopal"的绰号，这是Gopala-Krishna的缩写，意为"奶牛保护者"，并推断为"世界的保护者"。 Yashoda和克里希纳之间的纽带在印度教虔诚的诗歌和艺术中被庆祝为母爱的典范，通过类比，作为奉献者可能对上帝的奉献的典范。
介绍（英）	Following the infant Krishna being delivered for safety with foster parents in the village of Vrindavan, he was raised by Yashoda as if her own child. In this tender image, we see the infant Krishna (Bala-Krishna), crawling playfully, his foster mother offering a ball of butter to him to attract his attention. This scene plays on the often-depicted subject of Krishna using his superior intellect to mischievously steal butter and buttermilk, even when placed out of a child’s reach. Despite Krishna having been placed with a humble village family of cowherders in order to avoid his vengeful uncle the tyrant Kansa, usurper of the throne at nearby Mathura, the setting is not that of village India. Rather, the setting is palatial, the figure portrayed in an interior with Indo-Islamic architectural elements, with baluster columns, cusped arches and a richly curtained doorway. Similarly, both Yashoda and the infant Krishna are richly bejeweled, with Krishna wearing a pearled hairband with three peacock feathers. His foster mother wears colorful garments enriched with woven gold borders. Here Krishna has been given the epithet ‘Gopal,’ an abbreviation of Gopala-Krishna, the “cow-protector” and by inference the “protector of the World.” The bond between Yashoda and Krishna is celebrated in Hindu devotional poetry and art as a model of maternal love and, by analogy, as an exemplar of the devotion that a devotee may experience toward one’s God.