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Rishyashringa addresses the courtesans, from the "Shangri" Ramayana
c. 1700–1725
- Medium
- Gum tempera and ink on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Page: 20 x 30.4 cm (7 7/8 x 11 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, Himachal Pradesh
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
A king sent the courtesans to a forest ashram to convince the ascetic boy Rishyashringa to come back with them to the palace. The king believes that Rishyashringa's presence in the palace will bring about the end of a drought. Rishyashringa had never seen a woman before and was completely bewildered by them.
