Rajasthan, ca. 19th c.28 x 37.5 and 24.5 x 33.2 cmI: Depicted is an episode from the Kṛṣṇa legend, which cannot be further identified, in a completing mode of representation, i.e. the storyline consisting of several episodes is shown on a single picture surface. A small child, who can be reasonably identified by body color, forehead markings, and nimbus as the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, is held in the arms first by a man and then by a woman. The third sequence of images shows Kṛṣṇa sucking on his toe while lying on the ground and enclosed by a tendril of leaves. The painting refers to the motif of the god Kṛṣṇa as the lord of the banyan leaf, which is one of the popular and well-known motifs of Kṛṣṇaitic folk piety and shows the god as a toddler lying on his back and sucking his toe on a floating leaf of the banyan tree. II: An inscription at the top of the image names the scene depicted as śrī sukamāla ji ki tasvīr ("Image of Sukamāla), referring to the conversion story Sukamāla Cariu of Vibudha Śrīdhara written in Apabhramsha in the early 13th century. The story of Sukamāla is depicted here in a completionist painting style, that is, the storyline consisting of several episodes is shown on a single picture plane. The left half of the picture is filled by the schematic representation of a building. In the largest room, Sukamāla rests on a couch surrounded by numerous rooms inhabited by women. As the main character of the story, Sukamāla, who in the further course of the plot escapes from the building and rappels down the right side to do so, is shown enlarged compared to the other characters. At the top right, Sukamāla is shown in a temple. He first bows before a jinabildnis and renounces the world in this way; afterwards he takes off his clothes and now stands as a naked digambara monk in front of the shrine. In the lower right, Sukamāla is depicted in standing asceticism (Sanskrit: kayotsarga) under a tree while being attacked by wild animals. This scene is reminiscent of the Jina legend, in which Mahāvīra steadfastly perseveres despite violent disturbances to his asceticism and thereby attains omniscience.From an important private collection in northern Germany, collected mainly in India from the early 1950s to the 1980s