Ramayana in Pahari Miniature Painting

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

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The Rämāyaṇa In Pahari Miniature Painting
loc.: Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, no. 81-23. not published elsewhere. ill. 41
27. The shower of arrows is continuously going on and piercing most of the
monkey and bear warriors. Seeing that they will not be able to defend themselves, Rāma and Lakşmana have taken down their bows. (Vālmiki VI, 44 end). loc. : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ross-Coomaraswamy collection, no. 17.2752.. publ. : Coomaraswamy, 1926, description on p. 81 (no reproduction).
28. Rāma is eager to locate Indrajit. He selects ten of his monkey leaders who
should pursue him. These are: both sons of Sușena, general Nila, Angada, Sarabha, Dvivida, Hanumān, Sanuprastha, Rşabha and Rşabbaskandha. (Vālmiki VI, 45, 1-3) loc. : British Museum, London, Stein Box II, no. 1914-5-12-06, 0. A. not published elsewhere. ill. 42
29. The ten monkey leaders jump into the sky. Although they defend themselves
with huge stones and trees, they are not able to restrain Indrajit from sending out the fatal arrows. (Vālmiki VI, 45, 4-6). loc. : Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, no. 81-20. not published elsewhere.
30. The 'snake-like arrows of Indrajit, which are figuratively depicted as snakes
in the miniature, have pierced and bound Rāma and Lakşmaņa who are lying in the battle-field among other slaughtered monkeys and bears. The bondage of arrows is shown as a network of entwingled snakes on the bodies of Rāma and Lakşmaņa which are surrounded by a holo-like circle of the parallel shafts of the arrows. (Vālmiki VI, 45) loc. : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ross-Coomaraswamy, collection, no. 17.2756. publ. : a. Coomaraswamy 1926, no. XXVIII on pl. XV, description on p. 82.
b. Coomaraswamy 1916, pl. 24.
31. Vibhisana and the four monkey and bear leaders are standing in full grief and
despair near Rāma and Lakşmaņa lying in their arrow-bed, while the shower
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