Posted on: 17 July 2014

Rama and Lakshmana watching three animal warriors jump a pond, from Ramayana.
India, Madhya Pradesh, Malwa, circa 1640

Opaque watercolor on paper

Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)


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Animal warriors jumping a pond? Sorry, dont seem to remember any 'pond' in the ramayana? What on earth is the context?

Poetic licence... : )

ha ha!

Lol.

Fairly certain there must have been some pond and somebody who jumped across it at some point. :)

Probably a pond at Dondra, Seenigama or Hikkaduwa in Ceylon. From the "Yudha Kand" , the sites of battle preparation of Sugreeva's army ( see -> http://www.stephen-knapp.com/ramayana_sites_in_sri_lanka.htm ). Many water bodies highlighted in the geography of the Ramayana. ( http://kiskikahani.openspaceindia.org/articles/geography-of-the-ramayana/ )

Nice