This omnipresent form of Lord Krishna as the master of the Universe is one of the most cherished forms for Indian painting. The Lord was manifest in this form before Lord Arjuna at the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Lord Krishna showed Arjuna His Virat rupa when Arjuna was reluctant to fight his kith and kin.
In the Bhagavad Gita, part of the epic Mahabharata, there is a point in the discourse between Arjuna and Krishna wherein Arjuna asks the Lord for a vision of his true form. Krishna grants this vision, both glorious and terrifying, in which Arjuna sees the entire universe inside Krishna. This great form of Krishna is called virat-rupa (omnipresent or vast form).
The hands of the godheads as well as their headgears have been beautifully painted.