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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 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 – A strategic provocation
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis is a beautiful depiction of the inside of the palace of Lanka and Ravan’s throne. The architecture and ornateness stands out in this piece.
Here Hanuman has been captured and despite Ravan sitting higher than him on his throne, Hanuman has used his special powers to make his tail longer so he can sit higher than him.
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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 – Indrajit’s Illusion
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis artwork set during the Battle of Lanka, shows Indrajit, Ravan’s son, who is versed in magic creating an illusion of Sita and killing her in front of Hanuman. He tries to stop him but is unsuccessful and then reports back to Ram that Sita has been killed. Fortunately, Vibishana, who knew of Indrajit’s powers enlightened him that the whole thing was an illusion.
The artist has created a very dramatic piece of work, showing the battle scene below, Hanuman in the air trying to stop Indrajit and Indrajit killing Sita in a very dark and tragic time.
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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 – 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 Battle Begins
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis artwork depicts the Battle at Lanka, between the armies of Ram and Ravan, the King of Lanka. It took place between Ram’s army of varanas and Ravan’s army of demons.
It was a very bloody battle and Ram and Ravan fought a fierce battle with bows and arrows for nearly seven days. Ram and his army killed several of Ravan’s brothers.
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Ramayana – The Emancipator
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThe artist’s first depiction in Lanka of Sita in a beautiful garden surrounded by greenery and foliage with a beautiful tree in the centre of this artwork.
Hanuman startles Sita as he calls out to her unexpectedly showing her Ram’s ring and telling her he had sent him to find her.
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Ramayana – The Ethical Stance
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis beautiful piece of artwork shows the Kingdom of the Lanka and beautiful blue and gold palace in the background. Here you can see Vibishana, the younger brother of Ravan, the King of Lanka trying desperately to convince him to send Sita back to Ram, but Ravan was not willing to listen to Vibishana to he left Lanka to go and fight alongside Ram.
The artist has created a wonderful depicition of Ravan, the ten headed demon king with all of his arms carrying different weapons.
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Ramayana – The Firestarter
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThe Demons set fire to his Hanuman’s tail whilst he was prisoner in Lanka, but Hanuman shrank back to the size of a mouse and managed to escape but in the process set Ravan’s throne alight and left a trail of flames throughout Lanka and flew back to Ram.
The artwork shows the entire kingdom of Lanka in flames including Hanuman’s tail, the artist’s use of orange and red is so vibrant in this piece.
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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 liberation of Ravan
£ 75.00 – £ 550.00 BUYThis final battle scene at Lanka created by Italian artist Paolo Libralesso, shows the moment when Ram finally shoots and kills Ravan.
Ram had tried numerous attempts to kill Ravan by cutting off his heads but they kept growing back, then Vibishana, Ravan’s brother told Ram to shoot as his naval killing him instantly.
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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.