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Artworks
Rama and Laksmana fighting with Ravana to win back Sita, From a Dasavatara or 'Ten Incarnations of Visnu' Bilaspur, 1700-20
Opaque piments and gold on paper
Mandi Royal Library stamp on reverseFolio: 21.5 x 14.5 cm including red borderThis painting is folio 5 from a now dispersed album of paintings mostly of Ragamala subjects that has as yet been little studied but that appears to come from the...This painting is folio 5 from a now dispersed album of paintings mostly of Ragamala subjects that has as yet been little studied but that appears to come from the small hill state of Bilaspur in the early eighteenth century. In addition to the Ragamala subjects, the album began with an incomplete series of Dasavatara or Ten Incarnations of Visnu, Rama being the seventh. For the image of Balarama (substituting for Krishna) the eighth from this series, see Galloway and Kwiatkowski 2005, no. 20.
Full description by J.P. Losty available by request
