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The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe

Vishvamitra leads Rama and Lakshmana to the forest
1594. India; Agra, Uttar Pradesh state
Pigments and gold on paper

Museum Rietberg Zurich, Gift of the Rietberg Society, RVI 1840. Photograph © Rainer Wolfsberger.