- Shape
- Indian fighter
- Material
- Nylon & bamboo stick
- Color
- Acrylic paint & fusion art
- Size
- 46" × 46"
The story on the kite
Virata Darshan — the universal form, the omni-form — is an iconographical form and theophany of the Hindu god Vishnu, or his avatar Krishna. The most celebrated telling is in the Bhagavad Gita, the Song of God, given by Krishna in the epic Mahabharata to the Pandava prince Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Virata Darshan is considered the supreme form of Vishnu, in which the whole universe is contained.
In the climactic war of the Mahabharata, Arjuna and his brothers fight against their cousins, the Kauravas, with Krishna as Arjuna’s charioteer. Faced with the moral dilemma of whether to fight and kill his own kin for dharma — duty — Arjuna hears Krishna’s discourse on life and death. Krishna reveals himself as the Supreme Being and finally displays his Virata Darshan, which Arjuna witnesses through divine vision endowed to him by Krishna.
As told by Bhavna on Kite Stories, where this work was first published.