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‘For anyone with a connection to Hindu religion and culture, the “Ramayana” is a fundamental text,’ says Rukmani Kumari Rathore, our Indian art specialist in London. ‘This illustrated version is particularly special.’
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Comprising 24,000 verses across seven books, the epic poem ‘Ramayana’ tells the story of the divine prince Rama’s quest to retrieve his wife Sita from the clutches of the ten-headed demon Ravana.
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This manuscript features text for the second book and was once owned by Lakshmi Bai, queen of the northern state of Jhansi. During the rebellion of 1857–58, her house was set on fire and six volumes of her ‘Ramayana’ were destroyed – only this one remains.
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‘It’s remarkable to think that this book was owned by someone so central to Indian history as Lakshmi Bai,’ says our specialist, ‘and equally that it survived when the other volumes did not.’
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An important illustrated manuscript of the ‘Ramayana’ of Tulsidas, signed by Ramcharan Kayasth, Jaipur School, north India, dated VS 1853/1796–97 AD. Estimate: £30,000–50,000.
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Arts of India – 12 June at Christie’s London
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