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Lot 116

An illustration from a ramayana series: Rama slays Kumbhakarna
Guler, circa 1830-50

14 September 2015, 14:00 EDT
New York

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An illustration from a ramayana series: Rama slays Kumbhakarna

Guler, circa 1830-50
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; with Lanka in the background, Rama draws his final crescent arrow to decapitate Kumbhakarna, whose severed limbs crush teams of monkeys below, while yet more led by Hunuman and Sugriva heroically dash to subdue the great demon drawing his last exhausted breath.
Image: 11 1/8 x 16 1/4 in. (28.2 x 41.3 cm); Folio: 12 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (31.7 x 45.2 cm)

Footnotes

From Book 6, Canto 67. Kumbhakarna was one of the younger brothers of Ravana who used to stay awake for six months and then sleep for six months. He was awoken prematurely by Ravana to kill the invading army of Rama and Laskmana who had come to rescue abducted Sita. After Kumbhakarna decimated the monkey army of Surgriva and Hanuman, Rama joined the battle. He fired countless arrows with curved crescent points that dismembered each limb.

For another page from this series now in the Los Angeles Museum of Art, see Pal in Craven (ed.), Ramayana Paintings from the Pahari Tradition, p. 100, no. 9.

Provenance:
Sotheby's, New York, 17 June 1993, lot 148

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