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Detail of Ravana carrying off Sita (Thai Ramayana mural)

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Margery H. Freeman
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Detail of Ravana carrying off Sita (Thai Ramayana mural at Emerald Buddha Temple)

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This detail on a mural painted at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows a gleeful demon king Ravana abducting Sita.

The golden clad princess Sita appears to sit in Ravana’s lap as he runs with her into the forest to take her home to his demon island of Lanka. Ravana’s right arm is around Sita’s back and holds his bow, while his left arm is wrapped over the front of her outstretched legs. Both of them wear finely patterned royal Siamese clothes with golden crowns.

This image was photographed in August 1984.