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- Dancing deities
- In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 11
- The asparas in mirror image stances balance on one bent leg in active positions typical of classical Southeast Asian dances. One hand is held above the head and the other in front of the chest with their wrists and fingers stretched...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The kingdom of Ayudhya
- In The Ramayana, page 1.1
- Rama's hometown city of Ayudhya is depicted surrounded with solid white walls on a Ramayana mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The vantage point of this painting is from outside an inviting entrance gate door served by a well-worn footpath. Over...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Rama, Sita, and Laksman leave the palace
- In The Ramayana, page 2.1
- On this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, Sita, Rama, and Laksman depart the palace in Ayudhya for fourteen years of forest exile. Here they are shown with Sita's skin painted white on the left, Rama's painted green in the middle, and Laksman's painted...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The bow of Siva
- In The Ramayana, page 1.4
- Here, Rama draws an arrow across his bow at a Ramayana dance performance held at Yogyakarta in July 1986. The Rama dancer wears a golden crown and a gold-trimmed red sash across his bare chest. He also wears the "broken sword" pattern batik of Yogyakarta's...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Sita's hand in marriage
- In The Ramayana, page 1.5
- Rama and Sita ask for her parents' consent to marry in this detail image on a Ramayana mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Rama and Sita sit together on a low cushioned platform with their hands in the respectful wai or Thai prayer position....
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Rama's brothers go to his wedding
- In The Ramayana, page 1.6
- Rama's brothers are seen going to his wedding on this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Rama's brothers, dressed in golden clothes and crowns ride on gold chariots just outside the white palace walls of Ayudhya. A long line of their male attendants...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A royal bath
- In The Ramayana, page 1.7
- Sita is shown taking a royal bath before her wedding to Rama in a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Sita bathes sitting on the edge of an elegant platform shelter extending into a large tiled pool. Two women servants pour water from a gold basin over Sita...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The marriage of Rama and Sita
- In The Ramayana, page 1.8
- A royal pavilion scene on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows the wedding of Sita and Rama. On the central platform, Sita sits at the left and Rama at the right of a tall footed dish, designed to represent ceremonial foods on a mound of rice. Rama,...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The future king
- In The Ramayana, page 1.9
- Rama is shown to the people of Ayudhya and announced as their future king, as depicted on a mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Dressed in gold clothes and painted with his characteristic green skin, Rama is carried on a golden sedan chair just outside...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Rama is exiled
- In The Ramayana, page 1.11
- This mural painting from the Emerald Buddha Temple shows Rama bidding farewell to people at his father's palace in the kingdom of Ayudhya. Rama, whose skin is painted green, stands in golden royal clothes on a pavillion platform at the center. Subjects kneel...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A procession
- In The Ramayana, page 2.2
- A mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows Rama, his wife Sita, and his brother Laksman as they are leaving with a procession to go to the forest. Laksman appears on the left, Sita in the sedan chair in the middle, and Rama with his characteristic...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Bharata tries to give back the throne
- In The Ramayana, page 2.3
- On this mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple, Rama's brother Bharata and his comrades boat into the forest to try to find the exiled Rama after their father dies. The detail shows several long paddled canoes and a large poled platform barge. On each watercraft,...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A forest hermit
- In The Ramayana, page 2.4
- The forest hermit's respected position as a wise sage is shown by his elevated position sitting on a stone platform at left. Rama, Laksman, and Sita kneel on the ground at right. The hermit holds a palm leaf fan on a long handle. The hermit's stone platform...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The demon king
- In The Ramayana, page 2.5
- Ravana sits on a palace platform with two of his wives, as seen on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Ravana has one arm around each wife's neck. The wives both have their right hands held to their faces, as if in grief. Another demon, perhaps a relative...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The hunt
- In The Ramayana, page 2.8
- A Javanese dancer playing Rama pursues another dancer wearing the costume of a golden deer in a performance at Yogyakarta in July 1986. A Javanese dancer wears a golden deer costume in a Ramayana performance at Yogyakarta in July 1986. The dancer's eyes are...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Sita's ring
- In The Ramayana, page 2.12
- After battling Ravana, the wounded eagle king Sadayu flies into the forest and delivers Sita's ring to Rama and Laksman, as shown on this mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Rama and Laksman walk side by side in their customary gold crowns and royal clothes...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A demon army attacks Rama
- In The Ramayana, page 2.14
- Standing gracefully on one foot, Prince Rama (at left) shoots an arrow at a group of demons sent by Ravana, as painted on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The demons, depicted in varied animal-like forms, crowd around their elephant mount.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Hanuman meets Rama
- In The Ramayana, page 3.2
- The monkey god Hanuman climbing in a tree recognizes Rama and Laksman resting below, as seen on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. In this scene, Hanuman looks just like a small white monkey, wearing a loincloth and no crown. Rama and Laksman wear golden...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Rama and Laksman find the dead Sita
- In The Ramayana, page 4.4
- In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, Rama (with green skin), his younger brother Laksman, and Ravana's niece posing as the dead Sita all are are wearing royal Siamese clothes and tall pointed crowns painted with gold leaf paint. The fake Sita's...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Hanuman makes a bridge
- In The Ramayana, page 4.7
- In this image, as seen on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple, a huge Hanuman lies crouched on his stomach on the bluff at right with his tail extended and wrapped around rocks on the bluff at left. Hanuman's open-mouthed face looks back over his right shoulder...
- By Lorraine Aragon.