Ramayana in Pahari Miniature Painting

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

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The Rämāyana In Pahari Miniature Painting
under the tree surrounded by some guarding demonesses, Rāvana approaches her, to ask again and again to become his main queen which she constantly refuses. The demon to whom Rāvana is talking in his palace might be the magician Vidyujjihvā whom he ordered to creat a māyā-head of Rāma. (Vālmiki VI, 31 ) loc. : The Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Mr. George P. Bickford. no. 66.143. publ. : a. Archer 1952, fig. 13 (right half, detail), index to illustration
on p. 94. b. Khandalavala 1958, no. 60 (right half, detail), description
on p. 127-28.
Lee, S. E. Rajput Painting, pl. 3 (in colour, whole picture ) d. Lee, S. E. A History of Far Eastern Art, pl. 20 (in colour,
whole picture ). e. Archer 1973, vol. II, GULER 9 (iii) (in black-and-white). f. UNESCO Kurier : Weltkunst, Dec. 1967, no. 12, 8th year, in
'Skulptur und Malerei' by B. N. Goswamy, p. 16-27, illustration
of details on two pages.
g. Coomaraswamy 1916, pl. 23 (right half, detail). 6. The incident depicted in this picture follows very close to that of miniature
no. 5. Rāvana tells to Sitā all the details about how Rāma was killed in the battle-field. As proof the magician brings forward the māyā-head of Rāma, as second one he shows Rāma's bow. Thinking of her seemingly desperate situation Sitā is seated in complete grief under the tree, resting her head on her arms. The satisfaction of the demon-magician about his creation is his broadly grinning mouth ending in sharp teeth. The joy about the deceiving of Sītā is stressed with the depiction of the five darkish demons, all with crafty grinning faces, quelling out of the entrance of the palace. (Vālmiki VI, 31). loc. : Museum of Fine Arts, Ross-Coomaraswamy collection. no. 17.2747. publ. : a. Coomaraswamy 1926, no. XIX on pl. XII, description on p. 80.
b. Archer 1973, vol. I, mentioned on p. 147
according to Archer 1973, vol. I, p. 147 also :
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