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Women pick fruit in fertile garden (Thai Ramayana mural)
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- Unknown
- Location
- Bangkok, Thailand
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2006. Terms of use
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- The Ramayana: The Hindu epic The Ramayana is retold through the mural, painting, and dance of Southeast Asia. (Page 7.15)
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Women pick fruit in a fertile garden, as painted on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple.
Four women move contentedly around a lush landscape with colorful flowers and ripe fruit growing around boulders. A woman on the right reaches over a boulder to pick fruit, while three others gather together in the background standing by a pond.
In the Ramayana, when Sita and Rama are finally reunited harmoniously, they rule for many years over a happy kingdom where there are timely rains, fertile lands, and abundant harvests.
This image was photographed in August 1984.
