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Mewar paintings often have strong colour schemes showing festivals, hunts and telling stories. 

© Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA

The picture is full of scenes from everyday life. The river is in flood in the middle of the painting and there are various figures fording it:

a Rajput warrior on a horse in the front rides towards a group of villagers, who are going to visit the hermit. 
A woman on the far left bank is watched by another Rajput, who seems to have left his bow and arrows and shield beside her. 
There are cranes flying, and peacocks and monkeys in the tree on the left.

 

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