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Rama Sends a Captured Spy back to Ravana


Rama and his Armies Encamped; One Spy Returns to Ravana
Attributed to: Manaku (Indian, about 1700–1760)
Indian, Pahari
about 1725
Object Place: Guler, Punjab Hills, India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions Overall: 61.5 x 83.6 cm (24 3/16 x 32 15/16 in.)
Image: 56.7 x 80.3 cm (22 5/16 x 31 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2746
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsSanskrit text on reverse.
ProvenanceBy 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)