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Rain of arrows changes to serpents-- Rama and Laksmana Bound by the Snake-Arrows

Attributed to: Manaku (Indian, about 1700–1760)
Indian, Pahari
about 1725
Object Place: Guler, Punjab Hills, India

Medium/Technique Ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 59 x 82.4 cm (23 1/4 x 32 7/16 in.)
Image: 57 x 81 cm (22 7/16 x 31 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2755
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ClassificationsDrawings

ProvenanceCollection Raja Raghunath Singh of Guler (b. 1884 - d. 1920) [1]; before 1916, purchased in Amritsar, 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)

Notes:
[1] W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, 1973, vol. 1, page 146.