A Kalighat painting, watercolour and tin alloy on paper, ca. 1890, from Kolkata, showing Arjuna shooting arrows at Bhishma, the Mahabharata's account of Bhishma falling on his bed of arrows at Kurukshetra. Held today by the Victoria and Albert Museum under museum number IS.40-1959, South and South East Asia Collection.
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This source names Arjuna directly: "1890, from Kolkata, showing Arjuna shooting arrows at Bhishma, the Mahabharata's account of Bhishma falling on his bed of arrows at Kurukshetra."
This source names Kolkata directly: "1890, from Kolkata, showing Arjuna shooting arrows at Bhishma, the Mahabharata's account of Bhishma falling on his bed of arrows at Kurukshetra."
This source names Kurukshetra directly: "falling on his bed of arrows at Kurukshetra."
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The V&A's own title and description name Bhishma directly as the target of Arjuna's arrows, the Mahabharata's own account of how Bhishma came to lie on his bed of arrows at Kurukshetra.
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