Image: Life in the forest

Rama, Lakshmana, and Sita in Panchavati
mid-17th-century
(Mewar Ramayana)

You can read about the region of Panchavati at Wikipedia.

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Image: Sita, Rama, and Lakshmana in the forest

Sita, Rama, and Lakshmana in the forest
painting c. 1780
(Wikimedia)

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Image: Bharata Arrives at Chitrakuta

Bharata arrives at Chitrakuta.

Illuminated Ramayana, circa 1800.

(Huntington Archive)

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Image: Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana in Exile

Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana in Exile

Chore Bagan Studio, circa 1895

(Britsh Museum)

From the Museum site: Rāma and Sīta are shown seated in front of a forest hut, with Lakṣmana standing behind. Ravaṇa is seen peeping out from behind the hut and the Golden Deer is seen in the foreground.

Image: Viradha

The Battle with Viradha.

Illuminated Ramayana ms., circa 1700

(Huntington Archive)

You can read about Viradha at Wikipedia.

Detail: You can see he still has Sita in his arms.

Here are Rama and Lakshmana:

Image: Life in the Forest

Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana in the forest.

(painting, circa 1780: Huntington Archive)

You can read more about Panchavati at Wikipedia.

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Image: Events in Panchavati Forest

Event in Panchavati Forest
India, Gujarat, 1775-1800

(LACMA)

See Wikipedia for more about Panchavati.

Lower right: Surpanakha.

Lower left: Battle with Khara's army.

Upper right: The golden deer.

Upper left: Ravana and Sita.

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Image: Lakshmana Mutilates Shurpanakha

Lakshmana Mutilates Shurpanakha

Painting from Anjaneya Temple, Mulbagil, Karnataka

(image source)

You can read more about Shurpanakha at Wikipedia.

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Life in the Forest

(British Library: Mewar Ramayana)

From the Library site: Rama points out beauties of the Citrakuta mountain to Sita - the lovely trees and birds, the Mandakini river which rises in the mountain and flows along the bottom of the picture with hermits praying, meditating and bathing along it, and the rocks coloured by gems and minerals. Rama decorates Sita's forehead with red arsenic and takes her protectively in his arms when a lion growls. The text includes (and Sahib Din also illustrates) the tale of an audacious crow which is sometimes omitted from the Ramayana. An audacious crow pecks at Sita's breast and draws blood. Rama, enraged, takes aim at it with an arrow made of a reed. The crow is refused protection by all in the three worlds (heaven being represented by a pair of divine beings in a chariot and the underworld by a snake-king and his queen) and returns to beg for mercy from Rama. Rama relents and just shoots his arrow into the crow's eye, thus allowing it to live.

Details, including the story of Rama, Sita, and the crow,

plus Rama protecting Sita from a lion

Image: The Golden Deer

Sita, Rama, and the Golden Deer

from

Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues

Image: Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana Prepare for Exile

Preparation for the Exile by Godhu.

From the Ramayana series. Kangra School. 

Around 1785 AD.

(Kangra Kalam blog)

More about the Ramayana at Wikipedia.

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Image: Rama, Sita, and the Golden Deer

Rama, Sita, and the Golden Deer

(R. Wilson, Indian Story Book, 

illustrated by Frank Pape, 1914)

Image: Rama in Atri's hermitage

Image source: Rama in Atri's hermitage; Sita and Anasuya

Image: The Ashram of Bharadwaja

Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana at the Hermitage of Bharadvaja

(Kangra painting, circa 1780)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana in the forest; 
mid-17th century ms.
(British Library: Mewar Ramayana)

From the Library site: Laksmana hunts for deer on Rama's instructions, so that they may make offerings to the presiding deities of the place. Laksmana cooks the venison on skewers rather than boiling it as in the text and Rama makes the offerings. Sahib Din, again contrary to the text, depicts the two brothers eating while Sita waves a scarf over the food; and she then retires to the hut to eat her own meal. This picture demonstrates the format used by Sahib Din for a forest landscape, with a river at the foot of the picture, a foreground surrounded by trees where the action takes place and a backdrop of vertically striated purple rocks. The two-banded sky is typical of early Mewar painting.

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