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Enthroned Rama and Sita receive homage from their monkey and bear Allies, from the Yuddha Kanda (Book of the War) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)

Date: c. 1765
Medium: gum tempera and gold on paper
Culture: Northern India, Pahari kingdoms
Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 314368

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This scene is set at the end of the Hindu epic Ramayana , after Rama returns from 14 years of exile in the forest. During Rama’s time of exile, Ravana abducted Rama’s wife Sita. Rama gathered an army of monkeys and bears, and rescued Sita. The chiefs of the monkey and bear armies pay their respects to the reunited royal couple. Rama’s three brothers can be seen at the right side of the painting.

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Credit line: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Provenance: 1979: (Christie’s, London, England, lot 119, sold to Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim) | 1979–2018: Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection | 2018–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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