"After the Pequod: Moby Dick's Later Years"
Sri Rhadapadaman Padarhadamom

Herman Melville's classic tale ends, as we know, with the death of Ahab, the sinking of the "Pequod" and the rescue of Ishmael. 

The story of Moby Dick does not stop there, however. The great white sperm whale was stricken by remorse after his murderous attack on the ship and soon migrated to the Bay of Bengal, where he joined an ashram in Vishakhapatnam, seeking solace and redemption under the direction of the noted guruess Ananda Bhairavi.

After 10 years of meditation he had freed himself from the wheel of reincarnation and his previous sins of the shedding of blood, and from that point he lived as a holy hermit in a nearby sea-cave, where he became noted for his wisdom and kindly temperament. After more than a century he was visited by the incarnation of Shakti, as depicted here, at which point he set off on a voyage of enlightenment from which his physical body did not return.

The painter Padarhadamom's early work often had themes from Hindu classic tales. In his later years he discovered that velvet Elvises and nudes on motorcycles sold better to the tourist crowd.