Ramayana in Pahari Miniature Painting

Author(s): Jutta Jain
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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The Rāmāyana In Pahari Miniature Painting
30. Hanuman on the sea-shore concentrating on his jump across the ocean to Lankā.
loc. : Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland, no. RVI 841. measurements: 30 cm x 21.7 cm with border
25.7 cm x 17.5 cm without border
31. Hanuman flying across the ocean to reach Lankā.
loc. : Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland, no. RVI 840 measurements: 30.5 cm x 21.8 cm with border
26.2 cm x 17.5 cm without border ill. 16
32. On his flight across the ocean Hanuman encounters with the demoness Surasā
who opens her mouth widely so that Hanuman should enter into it. Hanumān, then, contracts his body into a speck, rushes through Surasā's body and comes out behind her in his previous shape. loc. : Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland, no. RVI 842. measurements : 31 cm x 21.8 cm with border
26.5 cm x 17.6 cm without border. ill. 17
33. After a talk with Sită in Aśoka garden and after laying waste to the castle
and city of Lankä, Hanuman is pursued by Indrajit, Rävana's son, and bound with his divine weapon brahmästra, depicted as snake-rope wound around Hanumān's body. God Brahmā appears in the sky. loc. : Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland, no. RVI 848. measurements : 30.8 cm x 21.8 cm with border
26.6 cm x 17.7 cm without border ill. 18
34. After Hanumān's successful mission to Lankā, he with his envoy return to
Kişkindbā, Sugriva's realm. There in the royal park they express their unrestrained joy in playful actions, until Dadhi-mukha, Sugriva's brother-in-law and keeper of the park, complains to Sugriva. loc. : Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland, no. RVI 845
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