Image: Building the Bridge to Lanka

I wish I could find out more about this image! It shows the monkeys building the bridge to Lanka. If anyone has more information about the provenance of the image (which I found at Twitter!), let me know!

Monkeys Building the Bridge to Lanka

More about the bridge to Lanka at Wikipedia, and you can also read about the monkey Nala who led the effort.

Image: Bridge to Lanka

The Monkeys Build the Bridge

Ramayana mansucript, circa 1725.

(Huntington Archive)

More about the bridge to Lanka at Wikipedia, and you can also read about the monkey Nala who led the effort.

Detail:

Rama, Lakshmana, Hanuman (or Nala?)

Image: Rama Builds the Bridge

Rama and Lakshmana builds a bridge

with the help of the monkeys;

they are writing Rama's name on the stones

so that the stones will stick together (more about the story).

Oleograph by Raja Ravi Varma.

(more about Raja Ravi Varma at Wikipedia)

Image: The bridge to Lanka

Building the bridge to Lanka

(Philadelaphia Art Museum)

More about the bridge to Lanka at Wikipedia, and you can also read about the monkey Nala who led the effort.

Detail:

Image: Rama Builds a Bridge to Lanka

The monkeys and bears build a bridge to Lanka

as Rama and Lakshmana look on

(from a Persian Razmnama)

More about the bridge to Lanka at Wikipedia, and you can also read about the monkey Nala who led the effort. You can also read about the Razmnama.

Image: Building of Rama's Bridge

Building of Rama's Bridge

(by K. Venkatappa, from Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists, 1914)

More about the bridge to Lanka at Wikipedia, and you can also read about the monkey Nala who led the effort.