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A priest holding a child’s rattle ceremoniously rocks a small swing shrine in which the deity Brijrayji, a form of Krishna worshipped at the court of Kotah, is venerated at the Swing-festival (Hindolabijaya) in the month of Bhadon (August-September).
Bautze, Joachim K., ‘Scenes of Devotion and Court Life: Painting under Maharao Ram Singh of Kota’, Andrew Topsfield, ed., Court Painting in Rajasthan (Mumbai: Marg Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, 2000), p. 124, illus. p. 124 fig. 1
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