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Ramayana – A double loss
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYRam and Lakshman are seen in this artwork as they come across a dying Jatayu, King of the Vultures, after Raavan has cut off his wings, on their search for Sita. Before dying Jatayu tells them who has captured Sita and their direction of travel to the south.
Blood can be seen coming from Jatayu as Ram hold him in his last moments. The artist depicts this emotional scene with Ram kneeling next to him performing his final rites.
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Ramayana – A Friendship is rising
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYRam and Lakshman go to Rishyamuk mountain to meet the King of the Vanaras – Sugriva (son of the Sun God Surya), who was in exile. Ram promises Sugriva that he will kill his brother Vali who had ostracized him from his Kingdom and taken his wife, and reinstate him as the King of the Vanaras. Sugriva in turn promises to help Ram to find Sita.
The artist shows Ram and Lakshman talking to Sugriva and Hanuman on the mountain.
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Ramayana – A Grand Duel
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis stunning artwork is set during the Battle of Lanka. Lakshman is engaged in a duel with Indrajit, son of Ravan in his flying chariot.
Lakshman is surrounded my hundreds of arrows as the arrows of Indrajit refused to harm him. He was protected against them.
Eventually Lakshman defeats Indrajit by beheading him with the celestial weapon, Anjalikastra.
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Ramayana – Bharat’s responsibility
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis artwork shows Ram’s brother Bharat asks for his sandals as a symbol of his presence on the throne as a sign of respect to his right, which he then places on the royal seat of Ayodhya and he agrees to become the caretaker of the kingdom until Ram returns.
The artist shows the three Queen mothers in the background watching him take Ram’s sandals gracefully from the forest before returning back to Ayodhya.
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Ramayana – Garuda and the Nagapash
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis beautiful artwork shows the amazing Garuda, a divine eagle-like sun bird with celestial golden wings. Garuda is a very powerful creature in the epics, whose wings can stop the spinning of heaven, earth and hell. He is also Lord Vishnu’s choice of vehicle.
Here you can see Garuda arriving to save Lord Ram when Indrajit, Ravan’s son had fired the the ‘nagapash’ arrow at him, which transformed into serpents and bound him and Lakshman. As soon as Garuda arrived all the snake arrows instantly flee freeing them.
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Ramayana – Jatayu’s sacrifice
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis beautiful artwork shows Jatayu, the King of the Vultures swooping through the sky trying to stop Raavan flying off in his vimana with Sita. Raavan aiming his bow and arrow directly at him cuts off Jatayu’s wings leading to his eventual death as he falls from the skies.
The artist shows how rich Lanka must be with his depiction of Ravan’s beautifully decorated and styled Vimana set high in the sky amongst the clouds.
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Ramayana – Jeevan Sanjeevani
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis is a beautiful depiction of Hanuman carrying the mountain of Dronagiri back to Lanka.
The choice of colours used by the artist in this piece blend perfectly together.
He succeeds in showing Hanuman’s strength and loyalty to Ram when asked to go and find the magic herb Sanjeevani in the Himalayan mountains to save Lakshman from death on the battlefield. Not knowing which herb, it was he picked up the entire mountain and brought it back with him.
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Ramayana – Ram Setu
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThe building of Ram Setu, also known as Rama’s bridge was the bridge that was built by the army of Vanaras for Ram to crossover to Lanka to save Sita from Ravan. Each of the stones used had Ram’s name on them and were thus able to float on water.
In this artwork you can see all the vanaras working together alongside elephants to build the bridge and Hanuman in the sky flying with more stones.
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Ramayana – Shurpanaka’s Lust
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis artwork shows Ram in the forest protecting Sita from the demoness Shurpanakha, she was the sister of Ravan, the King of Lanka and fell in love with Ram and wanted to marry him. When Ram rejected her she tried to attack Sita and Lakshman cut off her nose.
The artist depicts this scene perfectly in the forest with Ram defending Sita, Lakshman with his sword in the air about to cut her nose and Sita looking frightened in the background.
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Ramayana – The Awakening of a Giant
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis is a beautiful depiction of Kumbhakarna by artist Paolo Libralesso. Kumbhakarna was the younger brother of Ravan and a giant. He was notorious for sleeping 6 months at a time and waking up only to eat.
The artist demonstrates his sheer size by placing elephants on his head and also the depth of his sleep as nothing could wake him once he was in deep slumber.
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Ramayana – The Exile
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis artwork shows Ram, Sita and Lakshman departing the Kingdom of Ayodhya in their beautiful chariot led by decorated horses at the palace gates for their 14 year exile.
The artist shows the people of Ayodhya that have gathered there to see him off. Even during this time Ram has his right hand raised offering blessings to all those around him.
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Ramayana – The journey home
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis beautiful artwork shows Ram and Sita returning back to Ayodhya in Ravan’s magical flying aircraft known as the Pushpaka Vimana. The artist has depicted this aircraft as a beautifully designed palace in the clouds flying over the Ayodhya.
This beautiful vimana was actually originally made for Lord Brahma by Vishwakarma, who then gifted it to Kubera, the God of Wealth, but was then stolen along with Lanka by Ravan.
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Ramayana – The Trap
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis stunning artwork portrays the story of Ram killing the golden deer deep in the forest.
Ravan, King of Lanka, angered by Lakshman cutting off his sister’s nose, asked the demon Maricha who could take any form of animal to become a golden deer to tempt Sita. Sita seeing this deer asked Ram to catch it for her. Ram after chasing the deer soon realised that it was a demon and so shot him with a golden arrow killing him.
The artist shows Ravan in the left-hand corner with his multiple heads and arms watching Sita so that he can choose the right moment to present himself disguised as a sage and kidnap her.
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Ramayana – Two Good Two Bad
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis painting shows the site of the Yagna in the forest where the sages were trying to conduct their prayers. Ram and Lakshman told the sages to begin their rituals whilst they stood guard. As soon as they began the demons Subahu and Maricha appear and you can see Ram and Lakshman here battling with them.
The artist uses a wonderful contrast of colour with the green of the forest against the red raging clouds created by the demons and depicts their battle in a wonderful setting.