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Hanuman spies Sita in the Ashoka Grove, from the “Shangri” Ramayana
c. 1700–25
- Medium
- Gum tempera and ink on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Page: 21 x 31.6 cm (8 1/4 x 12 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, Himachal Pradesh
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
After her abduction, Sita is imprisoned in a garden on the island of Lanka. Female guards appointed by her captor, the demon Ravana, surround her and jeer as she crouches on a step. The monkey in the tree above her is the hero Hanuman, a loyal friend to her husband Rama. He shrank to disguise himself and gives her a message: now that he has found her, he will bring Rama and their armies to rescue her.
