Showing posts with label Images: Sita. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Images: Sita. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Image: Happy Reign



Rama reigns happily as king.
(British Library: Mewar Ramayana)

From the Library site: The seventh and last book begins with Rama and Sita enthroned in Ayodhya, where Rama questions the various assembled sages about the history of Ravana and his ancestors. The resulting answers take up half of the book. When the story begins again, Rama and Sita are seen together relaxing and enjoying wine and music played by nymphs in the ashoka grove filled with wonderful trees, flowers and fruits in the gardens of the palace at Ayodhya. These are their last untroubled moments together.

Detail:






Sunday, August 25, 2019

Image: Sita in Exile




Sita Vanavasa: Sita in exile; Ravi Varma Press.
(L0021787 Credit: Wellcome Library, London)

More about Sita at Wikipedia.

Detail:



Friday, August 16, 2019

Image: Sita, Indian puppet theater



Image source: Sita, Indian puppet theater (Andra Pradesh)




Image: Rama's coronation



Image source: Rama's coronation.
Even the gods are in attendance:
you can see Shiva and Brahma in the front,
and Ganesha is also there in the back.


Saturday, February 16, 2019

Friday, February 15, 2019

Image: Hanuman Carries Rama and Lakshmana



Hanuman Carries Rama and Lakshmana
circa 1800

(British Museum)

For more about Hanuman see Wikipedia. The woman who is greeting them is probably Sita.


Image: Hanuman with Rama and Sita



Hanuman, Rama, and Sita
(image source: British Museum;
Rajasthan School, circa 1800)

More about Hanuman, Rama, and Sita at Wikipedia. 

Here is the full painting:


Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Image: Rama and Sita in the Pushpaka



Rama and Sita in the Pushpaka
(by K. Venkatappa, from Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists, 1914)

You can read more about the Pushpaka at Wikipedia. You can see Hanuman there with them too!

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Image: Ravana and Sita playing chaupar



Ravana and Sita playing chaupar

circa 1800
(British Museum)

For more about chaupar see Wikipedia.

From the Museum website: An illustration from the Ramayana. Ravana attempts to win the love of Sita over a game of chaupar. Hanuman, in disguise, observes. 


Thursday, September 6, 2018

Image: Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, and Hanuman


Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, and Hanuman
1799
(British Museum)

From the British Museum site: Rāma, Sīta, Lakṣmaṇa and Hanuman; single-page drawing mounted in an album. Scene from a Ramayana depicting Rāma, Sīta, Lakṣmaṇa and Hanuman underneath a tree on a slope.

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Image: Rama with Sita, Lakshmana, and Hanuman




Rama with Sita, Lakshmana, and Hanuman
Rajasthan, circa 1800
(British Museum)

For more about the ceremonial fly-whisk see Wikipedia.

More information from the Museum site: Rāma stands on a throne, Sīta and Hanuman stand to the right, while Lakṣmaṇa waves a flywhisk to the left.

Saturday, December 23, 2017

Image: Ravana tries to deceive Sita with Rama's head


Ravana tries to deceive Sita with Rama's head

(from the late 16th-century Ramayana
associated with Hamida Banu Begum)

For more about Sita and Ravana see Wikipedia.


Sunday, December 17, 2017

Image: Burmese Ramayana



Scenes from the Ramayana
early 20th century
(British Museum)

More about Burmese kalaga embroidery at Wikipedia.

More information at the British Museum website: Kalaga fragment, illustrating scenes from the Ramayana. Scenes include, from far left, Rama and attendants receiving Ravana, Rama protecting Sita from Ravana who holds a snake (apparently dragging Sita towards him), Ravana in his chariot, and finally the monkey and demon armies approaching each other holding standards.






Monday, December 4, 2017

Image. Sita in the Grove / Rama and Lakshmana on the Battlefield



Sita in the Grove /
Rama and Lakshmana on the Battlefield

c. 1700
(LACMA)

More information from the museum website: Sita in the Forest Grove (left); Rama and Lakshmana Stricken (right), Folio from the "Shangri" Ramayana (Adventures of Rama). India, Jammu and Kashmir, Bahu.

Monday, August 21, 2017

Image: Sita and her twin sons



Sita and her twin sons
(Wikimedia)

This illustration comes from the book Nine Ideal Indian Women; you can find out more about the book and its author here: Old Indian Arts, and you can find out more about Sita, Lava, and Kusha at Wikipedia. 


Friday, August 11, 2017

Image: Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana



Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana
(Khajrana Temple)

You can read about the Khajrana Temple, which is dedicated to Ganesha, at Wikipedia.

Detail: Sita




Friday, January 27, 2017

Image: Rama and Sita (modern sculpture)



Rama and Sita, 
a modern sculpture; location unknown.
Photographer: Indi Samarajiva.