This is a Indian (Rajputi) Style of painting. The paintings clearly shows inheritance from the Mughal source but the bold compositions and use of abstractions were distinctly regional. During the late 18th and early 19th centuries numerous works of art were produced that depicted episodes from the life of Krishna. This painting depicts the epic of Mahabharat. "The Mahabharata (Devanagari: ???????), /m??a?b?a?r?t??/ is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana"