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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAMAYANA SERIES From Book 6, the ogre is one of the younger brothers of Ravana,
GULER, 1830-50 possibly Kumbhakarna, who used to stay awake for six months and
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. then sleep for six months. He was awoken prematurely by Ravana
Image: 11 1/8 x 16 1/4 in. (28.2 x 41.3 cm); to kill the invading army of Rama and Lakshmana who had come to
Folio: 12 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (31.7 x 45.2 cm) rescue the abducted Sita. After Kumbhakarna decimated the monkey
army of Sugriva and Hanuman, Rama joined the battle. He fired
countless arrows with curved crescent points that dismembered each
$5,000 - 8,000
limb.

With Lanka in the background, Rama draws his final crescent arrow Another page from this series is in the Los Angeles County Museum
to decapitate the great ogre, whose severed limbs crush teams of of Art, see Pal in Craven (ed.), Ramayana Paintings from the Pahari
monkeys below. Yet more led by Hanuman and Sugriva heroically dash Tradition, p.100, no.9 and two further sold at Christie’s, New York,
to subdue the great demon drawing his last exhausted breath. 26 & 27 September 2017, lot 229; and Francesca Galloway, Court
Paintings from Persia and India, London, 2016, p.98, no.36.

Provenance
Sotheby’s, New York, 17 June 1993, lot 148

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