Art, Symbol & Imagination
Building Rama’s Bridge: K. Venkatappa’s Illustration
Original caption: The Building of Rama’s Bridge
Venkatappa concentrates the building of the bridge into a scene of consultation on the rocky shore. Rama stands between the gesturing Hanuman and a watching companion, with the dark water behind them. In the adjacent narrative Ocean tells Rama that the monkey Nala possesses the building skill of his father Vishvakarma; the host then gathers trees and stones under Nala’s direction. The project converts an impassable boundary into a route towards Lanka.
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K. Venkatappa. "Building Rama’s Bridge: K. Venkatappa’s Illustration" [source caption]. In Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists, Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Original scan, 1914, George G. Harrap & Co.. Source scan leaf 111. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/hindu-rama-bridge
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Title from the printed caption. Editorial description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Artist credited in the printed list of illustrations. Full source leaf and the adjacent narrative reviewed; historical scan colour and texture retained.
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From the book
Myths of the Hindus and BuddhistsSister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy1914More from this book
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K. Venkatappa. Building Rama’s Bridge: K. Venkatappa’s Illustration. Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Scan leaf 111. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/hindu-rama-bridge