File:India, Calcutta, Kalighat painting, 19th century - Jatayu Hinders Ravana's Chariot, Trying to Prevent the Abduction of Sita - 2003.109.a - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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anonymous: Jatayu hinders Ravana’s chariot, trying to prevent the abduction of Sita (recto), from a Kalighat album
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| Title |
Jatayu Hinders Ravana's Chariot, Trying to Prevent the Abduction of Sita |
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Leaf from a Kalighat album: Jatayu hinders Ravana’s chariot, trying to prevent the abduction of Sita (recto); Dushyanta watching his son Bharat playing with the tiger at the end of the Abhijnanashakuntalam (verso)  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
This is an image of the ten-headed demon Ravana and Sita, wife of Rama, in a chariot held in the beak of the bird Jatayu, king of the vultures. When Ravana abducted Sita and carried her off in the flying chariot, Jatayu, a great devotee of Rama, engaged him in aerial battle to rescue her. Unsuccessful, he fell to earth, mortally wounded. It was from Jatayu that Rama found out about his wife. This story is from the epic Ramayana (The Journey of Rama). Here, in the Bengali version of this episode, Jatayu attempts to swallow the chariot in order to kill Ravana, but is forced to vomit it out once he realizes that Sita is on board. Jatayu is portrayed as a hero rather than as a failure. |
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| Date | 1800s | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium |
Black ink, watercolor with graphite underdrawing on paper |
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| Dimensions | Secondary Support: 47.8 x 29.4 cm (18 13/16 x 11 9/16 in.); Painting only: 30.4 x 25.5 cm (11 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Indian and Southeast Asian Art |
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| Accession number |
2003.109.a |
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| Place of creation | India, Calcutta, Kalighat painting, 19th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| References |
https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.109.a |
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| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.109.a | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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