Paintings of the Ramayana

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[Logo]( [The Ramayana | Superfine Kalamkari Painting]( [The Ramayana | Superfine Kalamkari Painting]( Kalamkari Painting on Cotton [Ramayana Mahatmyam | Kerala Mural Painting by Vishnu Shreedhar]( [Ramayana Mahatmyam | Kerala Mural Painting by Vishnu Shreedhar]( ACRYLIC ON CANVAS [Ravana Disguised As A Hermit And Asked For Alms From Sita (Sita Haran Episode From Ramayana)]( [Ravana Disguised As A Hermit And Asked For Alms From Sita (Sita Haran Episode From Ramayana)]( Madhubani Painting on Hand Made Paper, Folk Painting from the Village of Madhubani (Bihar) [39'' x 23'' Large Sampoorna Ramayana (Fine Art) Patachitra Painting | Handmade | Ramayana Patachitra Paintings | Made in India]( [39'' x 23'' Large Sampoorna Ramayana (Fine Art) Patachitra Painting | Handmade | Ramayana Patachitra Paintings | Made in India]( WATER COLOR PAINTING ON PATTI FOLK ART FROM THE TEMPLE TOWN PURI (ORISSA) Artist Rabi Behera Lord Rama Killing Ravana This painting, executed with absolute perfection, discovers all forms in lighter tints against a deep red background, something quite challenging, creating unique visual effect, represents the final phase of Rama’s battle against Ravana, the ten headed and twenty armed demon king of Lanka. The painting carves every figure with marble’s soft touch and exceptional care. The massive form of Ravana riding a chariot which ten white horses drive dominates the centre of the composition. Not all ten heads conceived on a single neck in a horizontal row misbalancing the entire anatomy, the usual way of representing Ravana’s ten heads, the artist of this folio has conceived them in two vertical registers, each having five heads with lower ones planted on five necks. [Bharat Milap]( [Bharat Milap]( Madhubani Painting on Hand Made Paper, Folk Painting from the Village of Madhubani (Bihar) [Ramayan Story Inside Body Of Hanuman | Natural Colors On Canvas | By Sachikant]( [Ramayan Story Inside Body Of Hanuman | Natural Colors On Canvas | By Sachikant]( Using Natural Stone Colors On Handmade Canvas Attendants Waking Kumbhakarana, Ravana’s Younger Brother A curious phenomenon, this painting represents a number of soldiers striking with clubs, tridents and other weapons on the mountain-like huge body of Kumbhakarana, the younger brother of Lanka’s demon king Ravana, snoring with his wide open mouth, in an effort to wake him. While a number of female musicians, playing on double drum, Santoor and Vina – both stringed musical instruments, are supplementing the efforts of waking him by their music – the softer means, columns of elephants and horses treading his body with heavy feet and animal-headed demons and others, piercing into his ear with their nails and loud sounds, are doing it by using painful tougher means. Rama Comes Back to Ayodhya on the Pushpak Vimana As they soar through the skies on the celestial vehicle, a historic moment unfolds before the beholder’s eyes, instilling a sense of pride and reminding us that righteousness will always prevail. Triumphant Lord Hanuman In Possession Of Mount Sanjeevani Hanuman ji’s body here is a solid green colour like the herbs tucked in the crevices of the mount. His triumphant demeanour reveals his supreme happiness in finding the Sanjivani herb. Rama,Lakshmana,Bharat and Shatrughna Playing in The Courtyard of The Castle Mangal Bhavan Amangal Hari Dravahu So Dasrath Ajir Vihari Sita Enters The Earth (Based on the Ramayana of Valmiki) When Sita was asked to undertake the fire ordeal, after she returned to the kingdom with her sons, she was reminded of the previous emotional traumas and hence prayed Mother Earth to embrace her if she had been true to Rama in mind, speech and action. This painting is a depiction of what happened after this prayer; ground beneath her feet split wide open and Mother Earth perched on her bejewelled throne ascends out and spreads her arms beckoning Sita to leave this unworthy world and before anybody could react, she enters the depths; Lord Rama, colored in deep blue seems engulfed in grief on realising the current scenario. [Rama, Sita and Lakshmana in the Forest]( [Rama, Sita and Lakshmana in the Forest]( Bengali Folk Painting on Paper Artist: Sahajan Chitrakar [Kasyapa Worshipping Kamdhenu | Embossed Tanjore Painting with Teakwood Frame]( [Kasyapa Worshipping Kamdhenu | Embossed Tanjore Painting with Teakwood Frame]( Natural Color with Gold Work [Sita the Daughter of Goddess Earth (An Episode from the Ramayana)]( [Sita the Daughter of Goddess Earth (An Episode from the Ramayana)]( Madhubani Painting on Hand Made Paper, Folk Painting from the Village of Madhubani (Bihar) Artist: Rinku Devi [Bhagwan Ram and Devi Sita Tanjore Painting with Teakwood Frame]( [Bhagwan Ram and Devi Sita Tanjore Painting with Teakwood Frame]( Traditional Colors with Gold Work [Sita Haran - Abduction of Sita]( [Sita Haran - Abduction of Sita]( Orissa's Paata Painting Water Color on Tussar Silk [An Episode from the Ramayana]( [An Episode from the Ramayana]( Water Color on Patti Lord Rama Killing Ravana This excellent painting, so strikingly different, simple and elegant, gives plenty of space not only for the depicted action but also to the sky to let it display its glory, to the land to let it stretch to the horizontal line, and to the ocean to let it mark at least its presenceIn the painting. Rama, carried over the shoulders of Hanuman, and the ten headed and twenty armed Ravana, equipped with various weapons, are face to face. Rama is aiming his arrow at Ravana and vice versa Ravana at Rama. The artist has symbolised dimensions of war by depicting a monkey overpowering a Lankan warrior, probably one of Ravana's sons. Rama is carrying, besides his bow and quiver, also a sword. Rama, Hanuman and a monkey warrior are in green, a characteristic feature of the South Indian iconography, and Ravana and one of his sons are in blue. Hanuman's loincloth and Ravana's 'dhoti' are exactly similar. The upper garments of Rama, Ravana, Hanuman and Ravana's son are rendered in same yellow but they are differently painted and fashioned. Hanuman and the other monkey warrior are without a headdress, whereas Rama, Ravana and his son are wearing similar characteristically South Indian crowns. Ornaments of all figures are also alike fashioned. Hanuman Presents Rama's Ring to Sita Surrounded by Rakshasis Hanuman presents Rama's ring to Sita at Ashoka-vatika This highly simplified miniature depicts one of the most significant episodes from the Ramayana. It precedes the climax of Rama-katha, Ravana's defeat and death, re-union of Rama and Sita and Rama's return to Ayodhya. The painting relates to Hanuman's arrival at Ashoka-vatika in Lanka as Rama's emissary in search of Sita. It was at Ashoka-vatika that Ravana had kept Sita after her abduction. Hanuman, while searching Sita, finds Ravana's brother Vibhishana engaged in commemorating Rama's name, as he was a devotee of Rama. From Vibhishana he knows that Sita was housed in Ashoka-vatika. With his assistance Hanuman reaches Ashoka-vatika. He assumes a dwarf's form lest in heavily guarded Lanka he is seen and identified by anyone. Unobserved he mounts the tree Sita was sitting under. By his magic spell he sends she-demons attending on her into death-like slumber and keeping himself hidden behind the branches of the tree drops Rama's ring before Sita. He thought that she may not believe him, if he appeared directly before her. Hence, before doing so he wanted to know how she reacted when she saw Rama's ring. [Rama Durbar]( [Rama Durbar]( Water Color On Paper Artist Kailash Raj [Pray To Samudra Dev For Ramsetu - Ramayana Story | Stone Color Painting | By Biswajit Swain]( [Pray To Samudra Dev For Ramsetu - Ramayana Story | Stone Color Painting | By Biswajit Swain]( Pattachitra Painting With Original Stone color Psychological Warfare In The Ramayana The grandest retelling of the Ramayana is the series of 400 paintings commissioned by Mewar's Rana Jagat Singh in the mid-1600s. The Kailash Raj work in question is a copy of one of those splendid paintings, which actually took nearly a decade to finish. It depicts a point in the war when Ravana's forces had been outnumbered by Rama's vanarsena (army of monkey-warriors), and so He sends Indrajit to battle. In his blue-gold chariot drawn by supple white horses, the generously armed Indrajit plays a mind game with the bothers. They are to the left of the painting, their stance unflinching. Indrajit uses His powers to project an illusory image of Seeta, which He grabs by the hair and slays brutally with His long, silver sword. As her body falls to the ground, cut into two, Hanuman rushes to tell the grievous news to Rama and Lakshman Himself. In the meanwhile the vanars are distraught to see their beloved Seeta thus slayed, but they refuse to let their warrior ethic slip as they continue to do battle with Indrajit's troops. 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