Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, from a now dispersed Bhagavata Purana manuscript of some three hundred folios, a Sanskrit text in praise of Krishna. This painting depicts Akrura presenting the jewel, Shyamantaka, to Krishna. The figures are depicted in a palace interior, with Sultanate period architectural elements visible above. The costume details are richly observed and the composition is given a remarkable intensity through the use of a saturating red and green background to offset the two groups of figures. This event, described in Book 10 of the Bhagavata Purana is set in the golden city of Dwaraka. Krishna, in a yellow dhoti, sits on a patterned bolster at the feet of the King Ugrasena, with his hand stretched out towards Akrura to receive the jewel, Ugrasena sits on a canopied throne, attended by a chauri bearer while Akrura, to the left, stands with the jewel cupped in his hands with a row of three courtiers seated behind him; all of the protagonists wear the Kulahdar turban except for Krishna who wears a crown. The Royal group i.e. Krishna, Ugrasena, and chauri bearer, are shown against a red background, and the Akrura group against a green one. Above them a scallop-edged, black-tasselled curtain hands from a two-patterned horizontal band. The whole is enclosed within a yellow rectangle with a dome, chhattri and crenellations representing a palace in the golden city of Dwarka. The water is represented by a basket-weave motif on two sides and a partially rubbed and worn dark red area is visible in the immediate foreground.