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    "localId": "7087",
    "label": "Devi with Shumbha's Messenger",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.880"
}

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    "id": "7087",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.880",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Devi with Shumbha's Messenger",
    "description": "The demon Shumbha sends a messenger to the great goddess Devi asking her to become his wife. The Sanskrit text of the Devimahatmya (ca. 6th century), written on the back of the leaf, includes the goddess's reply:\t                  He who conquers me in battle, removes my pride and is my match in                        strength in the world shall be my husband.\tSo let Shumbha come here. . . . Vanquishing me here, let him soon take                   my hand in marriage. Why delay?At the far right, the messenger is depicted a second time, on his way back to Shumbha, to whom he will report the goddess's response.",
    "provenance": "John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2001, by gift.",
    "date": "1775-1800",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.880",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Manuscripts & Rare Books",
        "miniatures (paintings)"
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 18.4,
            "height": 25.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "7 1/4 x 10 in. (18.4 x 25.4 cm)"
}

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        "2071"
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