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VALMIKI VISITED BY RAMA

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VALMIKI VISITED BY RAMA, SITA AND LAKSHMANA, PURI, ORISSA (ODISHA), FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY

gouache on gessoed cloth, the scene surrounded by a double border of scrolling foliage

40.5 x 45.5cm

Provenance: From the collection of the artist, Balraj Khanna. Valmiki is a mythical figure, said to have been author of the Ramayana. After an early life of crime, he became a poet and lived in a hermitage in the forest. He was often visited by the heroes of the epic.


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VALMIKI VISITED BY RAMA, SITA AND LAKSHMANA, PURI, ORISSA (ODISHA), FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY

gouache on gessoed cloth, the scene surrounded by a double border of scrolling foliage

40.5 x 45.5cm

Provenance: From the collection of the artist, Balraj Khanna. Valmiki is a mythical figure, said to have been author of the Ramayana. After an early life of crime, he became a poet and lived in a hermitage in the forest. He was often visited by the heroes of the epic.

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