The Ramayana : love and valour in India's great epic : the Mewar Ramayana manuscripts
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The Ramayana : love and valour in India's great epic : the Mewar Ramayana manuscripts
Niyogi Books, 2008
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First published 2008 by The British Library on the occasion of the exhibition at The British Library 'The Ramayana Love and Valour in India's Great Epic 16 May - 14 September 2008.
"This edition published in 2008 by Niyogi Books in association with the British Library. For sale in the Indian subcontinent only."--Colophon
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The illustrated Ramayana' commissioned by Rana Jagat Singh of Mewar in Rajasthan between 1649 and 1653 and now mostly in the British Library is among the greatest of seventeenth-century Indian manuscripts. The huge scale of the project includes over 400 paintings. This book presents nearly 130 of these paintings. The Indian epic 'Ramayana' is one of the world's greatest and most enduring stories. Prince Rama was exiled with his beloved wife Sita for 14 years through the plotting of his stepmother. Sita was carried off by the demon Ravana, King of Lanka, and Rama'
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