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PROPERTY FROM THE LANIER COLLECTION his ax and the bow of Vishnu. He raises his hand
in a mudra, challenging Rama to lift the bow.
THE APPEARANCE OF Rama agrees easily stringing an arrow - thus
PARASURAMA: A FOLIO FROM A revealing his true divinity to Parasurama. A white
DISPERSED RAMAYANA SERIES sky band and blue heavens and a gold sun.
India, Mewar, Udaipur, circa 1700
An extremely ne pothi (horizontally oriented)
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper folio from the reign of Maharana Amar Singh II
image: 14½ by 9 in. (35.6 by 22.8 cm) (1672-1710) of Udaipur, whose nimbate portrait
folio: 15¾ by 10¼ in. (38.1 by 25.4 cm) may be discerned here in the guise of the bearded
Parasurama. Text in two lines of black ink
PROVENANCE Devanagari script in the yellow panel at top. Red
outer borders with black ruled lines. Other folios
Sam Fogg Ltd., London from this important dispersed Ramayana from
Acquired circa 1999 Mewar are in museum and private collections
worldwide.
Parasurama the sixth Avatar of Vishnu, appears
before King Dasaratha, along with Rama and his For relatable works, see A. Tops eld, ‘Court
brothers Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna Painting at Udaipur: Art Under the Patronage of
- carrying his ax and the bow of Vishnu. He the Maharanas of Mewar’, in Artibus Asiae Sup.
encounters the party of Dasaratha on their 44, Zurich, 2001.
journey back to Ayodhya after the wedding of
Rama and Sita. Nimbate (haloed) and bare $ 10,000-15,000
chested against a black-green ground, carrying
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