Dasharatha with Minister Sumantra; Rama leaving
Item Overview
- Title
- Dasharatha with Minister Sumantra; Rama leaving
- Photographer
- Dharmpal Nanda
- Date Created
- December 1977
- Date
- 1977-12-01
- Place of Origin
- Ramnagar, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (India)
- Collection
- AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides
- Program
- Modern Endangered Archives Program
Notes
- Description
- This is folio 36 from the Ayodhyakanda chapter of the Ramcharit Manas manuscript. The illustration shows Dasharatha with Minister Sumantra (top); Rama taking leave of the citizens (bottom).
- Contents note
- The Ramcharit Manas manuscript was housed at the All-India Kashiraja Trust, Ramnagar Fort, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India at the time of photography in 1977. Ramcharit Manas translates to "Sacred Manas Lake of Ram's Deeds" and is an epic poem of nearly 13,000 lines, composed in the Avadhi dialect of pre-modern Hindi by the poet-saint Tulsidas. This manuscript was produced in Ramnagar, Varanasi between 1796 and 1808 under the patronage of its royal court and particularly the ruler Udit Narayan Singh (r.1795-1835). The manuscript showcases a synthesis of multiple painting schools from Jaipur, Murshidabad, Lucknow, Delhi, Datia etc. The manuscript is now dispersed and its present location is unknown.
Physical Description
- Dimensions
- 35 mm
Keywords
- Genre
- color slides
- Subject Geographic
- Ramnagar (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh (India)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
valmiki
illuminated manuscripts
ayodhyākāṇḍa
ramayan
rāmāyaṇa
tulasidasa
rāmacaritamānasa
miniature painting
Find This Item
- Repository
- American Institute of Indian Studies, Center for Art and Archaeology, Gurugram, Haryana, India
- Local Identifier
- SL_002867
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1pw27xt
- Archival Collection
- Box 2867
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Rights Holder
- caa.archives@aiis.edu.in
- Funding Note
- Digitization for the AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides Collection was sponsored by the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.