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Lot 1879

TWO DOUBLE-SIDED MANUSCRIPT PAGES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE RAMAYAMA

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300 € - 500 €

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India, Kishangarh, 19th c.
Je ca. 42 x 28,5 cm
The manuscripts depicting scenes from the Ramayana with text written in devanagiri and illustrations with figures painted on a green ground.
From an important private collection in northern Germany, collected mainly in India from the early 1950s until the 1980s
The Ramayana, a 50,000-line poem, is one of India's most popular and enduring stories, written by the sage Valmiki and divided into seven sections, the Khands. It can be interpreted on several levels: It is not only an epic poem, but also a treatise on dharma, filial and fraternal duties, honour, loyalty, piety and marital fidelity. Rama is the ideal son, husband and ruler, while his wife Sita embodies the perfect woman - Minor traces of age