INDONESIAN PRINTED CEREMONIAL CLOTH, BALI, MAHABHARATA STORY, CIRCA 1790 CM188X95 Reduced sideways, holes CEREMONIAL INDONESIA PRINTED FABRIC, BALI, STORY OF MAHABHARATA, CIRCA 1960, REDUCED ON SIDES, TWO SMALL HOLES. The Mahabharata is a monumental epic poem with mythical and religious contents that narrates the distant past of the Aryans, the Indo-European people who invaded India and narrates the struggle between Pandavas and Kauravas for the possession of the region between the two rivers Yamuna and Ganges. Usually these textiles bear the VOC stamps of the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie) in this piece is missing. Reference bibliography: John Guy, Woven Cargoes. Indian Textiles in the East, Thames and Hudson, 1998, pl. 151. Victoria and Albert Museum Image ID 2006AT2967