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

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Image: Sita and Agni



Sita Sings the Blues movie poster by Nina Paley

You can read more about Agni and Sita at Wikipedia. For Nina Paley's film, see: Sita Sings the Blues.

Monday, August 19, 2019

Image: Sita's test by fire



Sita's test by fire
(Wikimedia: British Library's Mewar Ramayana)

From the Library site: With Ravana finally dead, Sita has prepared herself for seeing her husband once again. But Rama has repudiated her: she has lived in another man's house and hence it would not be fitting for him to take her back. To prove her chastity and vindicate her honour, Sita has a great fire prepared and casts herself into it. Agni the golden god of fire himself rises from the flames attesting to Sita's purity and presents her to her husband. The gods headed by Brahma on his goose, Indra on his elephant and Siva and Parvati on the bull Nandi come down from heaven and Rama's father, king Dasaratha, comes back from the dead all with the same message. Rama announces that he has not doubted her for an instant, but that the trial was necessary so that the people should not doubt her either. He requests that the god Indra restore to life those monkeys who have died in the struggle. As Indra departs, he bathes the dead monkeys in nectar, so that they return, wildly rejoicing, to life.

Details:
The gods Brahma, Shiva, and Indra appear;
Agni restores Sita from the fire;
Rama's father, Dasharatha, appears;
Indra brings monkeys back to life.

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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Image: Sita in the arms of Agni


Sita in the arms of Agni
(illustration by Evelyn Paul)

You can read more about Sita and the fire-god Agni at Wikipedia. You can see that Rama and his army of monkeys are watching in amazement.




Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Image: Agni, god of fire



Agni, god of fire
(circa 1830; Wikimedia - British Museum)

As you can read in the British Museum notes to this image, Agni's hair is done in a jata style and he is riding on a ram as his vahana. His lower right hand shows the abhaya mudra (no-fear), and his lower left hand is in the varada mudra (generosity).

More about Agni at Wikipedia.


Image: Rama and Sita with Agni



Rama and Sita with Agni
while Brahma and Shiva look on;
from Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues
(Wikimedia)

You can read more about Agni and Sita at Wikipedia. For Nina Paley's film, see: Sita Sings the Blues.

Image: Sita in the fire



Agni Pariksha: Sita in the fire
(Wikimedia: from the British Museum)

You can read more about Agni and Sita at Wikipedia.

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Image: Sita in the fire



Agni Pariksha: Sita in the fire
(Wikimedia; Oleograph by Raja Ravi Varma)

You can read more about Agni and Sita and also more about Raja Ravi Varma at Wikipedia.