DILIP SHYAM-GOND ART-Madhya Pradesh-India--Peacock-amalgamation-Flora-Fauna-birds (DS 480)

When Bada Dev created the world, it took seven days. Bada Dev created all the creatures of nature in the first three and a half days and the grains in the remaining three and a half days. He wanted to create a bird called Peacock, and so first he made all the parts – the head, feathers, tail, legs and crown separately. But another bird called the Lapwing saw all these parts and she decided that she would take the legs for herself. Sometime later Lapwing laid her eggs but then she suddenly became very fearful of the jungle, wind, water and sky, and she thought that if the sky were to fall down she could stop it by using her new legs. After all of this, Peacock danced in the monsoon and he admired his beauty, but when he looked down at his legs he felt unhappy because in all his beauty only his legs were ugly and this is why he is shown weeping in the painting.