Krishna, the eighth incarnation (avataras) of the Lord Vishnu. The newborn child Krishna reveals his divine nature to his birth parents, and is then transferred to the bed of his foster mother, Yashoda. After an illustration by Coenraet Decker in Philippus Baldaeus’s Truthful and Exact Description of the Famous East India Coast of Malabar and Coromandel, Amsterdam, 1672. Huitieme Incarnation. Copperplate engraving by David Herrliberguer after an illustration by Bernard Picard from Les Ceremonies Religieuses de Tous les Peuples du Monde, Religious Ceremonies of All the Peoples of the World, Che

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