Kṛṣṇa and Rādha Exchange Clothes:

In the lower right hand corner of this folio, the blind poet and supreme bhakta of Kṛṣṇa, Sūrdās is witnessing a series of līlas in which Kṛṣṇa and his beloved Rādhā cross-dress and exchange garments and gendered roles they traditionally play in the game of love. The illustration reflects the poem lāla tumārī muralī nainka vajāun (“Dear, let me play your Muralī for a moment”), which bears the signature of Sūrdās but is absent from the Nāgarīpracāriṇī Sabhā edition of the Sūrsāgar. The painting’s inscribed poem is drawn from the enormous corpus of devotional poetry ascribed to the poet Sūrdās (1478–1573) and his followers. It was presumably not written by Sūrdās himself, though it bears his characteristic signature — as it first appears in the extended Sūrdās corpus in a manuscript dated 1686 written at Chatsu by a scribe from Gokul. <a href="https://hinduaesthetic.medium.com/k%E1%B9%9B%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%87a-and-r%C4%81dha-exchange-clothes-a58a4ffc3d62">Read More</a>