Art, Symbol & Imagination
Rama’s Marriage: K. Venkatappa’s Ramayana Illustration
Original caption: Rama’s Marriage
Sita offers a garland to Rama while an elder rests a hand on his shoulder; the broken bow lies across the foreground. K. Venkatappa keeps the royal encounter intimate, making the exchanged gesture and the figures’ lowered eyes more prominent than the surrounding architecture. The accompanying Ramayana narrative describes Rama lifting and breaking Shiva’s great bow, fulfilling the condition for winning Sita. The plate links that feat to the recognition of the couple. Their apparent harmony at this beginning will later be tested by exile, abduction and the struggle to return home.
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K. Venkatappa. "Rama’s Marriage: K. Venkatappa’s Ramayana 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 53. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/hindu-rama-marriage
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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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K. Venkatappa. Rama’s Marriage: K. Venkatappa’s Ramayana Illustration. Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Scan leaf 53. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/hindu-rama-marriage