Hermit leads Rama to competition for Sita (Thai Ramayana mural)
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- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- Unknown
- Location
- Bangkok, Thailand
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2006. Terms of use
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In this detail on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple, a hermit leads Rama and Laksman to Sita’s city so that Rama can enter the bow-stringing competition for Sita’s hand in marriage. Here, and elsewhere in Thai temple paintings, Rama is depicted with green skin.
Led by a brown-robed hermit who gestures forward, the small group including Rama, Laksman, and two hermit assistants, walks past a stony mountain and some trees. A small Southeast Asian style, elevated thatched roof house is visible on the right.
This image was photographed in August 1984.
