Page from a Kalakacharyakatha Manuscript: Kalaka Converts Bricks into Gold (Primary Title)
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To raise money for his campaign against Gardabhilla, Kalaka resorted to magic. In the upper register, he stands before a flaming brick kiln and sprinkles a magic powder on bricks to transmute them into gold. Behind him a Saka carries away the ingots on his head. In the lower panel, the Saka chief, seated on his horse, observes a second Saka bearing an even bigger pile of the gold bricks.
Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Paul Mellon
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