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- Ravana continues the fight
- In The Ramayana, page 6.2
- Ravana arrives on his chariot to fight, as seen in a mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The ten-armed Ravana perches atop his gold chariot wielding spears, swords, and lances in each hand. His remaining allies, dressed in gold, run at the sides of...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Ravana dies
- In The Ramayana, page 6.9
- In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, both the women and Ravana are dressed in royal Siamese clothes and crowns painted with gold leaf paint. The long-haired and fair young women who sit on opposite sides of Ravana's body hold up their bent left...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Ravana is wounded
- In The Ramayana, page 6.7
- Ravana sits wounded by an arrow shot by Rama, as depicted in a mural scene at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Sitting on the ground beside his chariot, Ravana holds himself up with his left arm as he looks down at the arrow poking out of his chest. Ravana is shown...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A new plot
- In The Ramayana, page 4.2
- In this Emerald Buddha Temple mural scene, the demon king Ravana instructs his niece to imitate Sita's appearance and behavior. Ravana speaks and gestures his instructions from a high palace veranda to his young and beautiful niece who sits respectfully on...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Ravana plots Sita's abduction
- In The Ramayana, page 2.6
- This detail on a painted mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple depicts the demon king Ravana siting on a royal pavillion platform and gesturing with twenty arms (ten emerging from each shoulder). Ravana is speaking to another blue-faced demon partially seen at...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Ravana prepares a poison spear
- In The Ramayana, page 5.1
- Dressed in royal gold attire, the demon king Ravana sits in a luxurious crimson and blue T-shaped pavillion as he prepares a poisoned spear to fight Rama's army. Bowls of food and drink sit nearby for Ravana's comfort. Below the platform walking on the right...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Ravana's dream
- In The Ramayana, page 4.1
- In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, the demon king Ravana has his dream interpreted by his younger brother Bhibek, the royal astrologer. Ravana is shown here seated on a raised cushion in golden attire, waving his ten arms, while his brother...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Sadayu attacks Ravana's chariot
- In The Ramayana, page 2.11
- A twenty-armed and ten-headed demon king Ravana fights the eagle king Sadayu in a detail from an Indian Ramayana painting. Sadayu on the left is trying to pick out one of Ravana's eyes from one of his ten heads, while Ravana is using his twenty arms to wave...
- 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.
- Ravana kidnaps Sita
- In The Ramayana, page 2.9
- This Indian painting shows Ravana at left posing as an elderly hermit with Sita and then, at right, in his original mult-headed form, abducting her in his chariot. Sita is depicted wearing an orange Indian sari and she stands outside a very modest thatch dwelling...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Ravana sets Hanuman on fire
- In The Ramayana, page 3.10
- In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, Ravana dressed in royal Siamese apparel descends the stairs of his palace thrusting a fiery torch towards Hanuman. Hanuman sits on the tile floor at left, confined and bound with oil-soaked cotton rope. Another...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Hanuman and the demon king
- In The Ramayana, page 3.9
- Hanuman and Ravana puppets face each other in battle at a July 1986 performance in Yogyakarta. The white Hanuman puppet on the left wears a royal Yogyakarta-style batik sarong while the Ravana puppet, with a moustache and red skin, is dressed in red. The faces...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Ravana's mermaid daughter
- In The Ramayana, page 4.9
- The demon king Ravana instructs his mermaid daughter to ruin Rama's bridge to Lanka, as seen on a painted mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The royally clothed Ravana (with green skin) gestures with four arms as he jumps with a wide-legged stance from a...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Ravana tempts Sita
- In The Ramayana, page 2.13
- The demon king Ravana visits the captured Princess Sita in a wooden puppet theater performance at Yogyakarta in July 1986. The Ravana puppet, here painted with red skin unlike his green-skinned counterpart in Thai mural art, waves a powerful sword at Princess...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Demon king Ravana offers treats to Sita (Thai Ramayana mural)

- The demon king Ravana offers treats to Sita as seen on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. In this palace porch room, Sita sits and turns her back to Ravana as he holds out a gift for her. Sita's head is turned back towards Ravana and she waves a stick in...
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- Ravana instructs his niece to impersonate Sita (Thai Ramayana mural)

- In this Emerald Buddha Temple mural scene, the demon king Ravana instructs his niece to imitate Sita's appearance and behavior. Ravana speaks and gestures his instructions from a high palace veranda to his young and beautiful niece who sits respectfully on...
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- Ravana arrives on golden chariot to fight (Thai Ramayana mural)

- Ravana arrives on his chariot to fight, as seen in a mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The ten-armed Ravana perches atop his gold chariot wielding spears, swords, and lances in each hand. His remaining allies, dressed in gold, run at the sides of...
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- Ten-armed Ravana gets his dream interpreted by his brother (Thai Ramayana mural)

- In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, the demon king Ravana has his dream interpreted by his younger brother Bhibek, the royal astrologer. Ravana is shown here seated on a raised cushion in golden attire, waving his ten arms, while his brother...
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- Two wives mourn beside dying Ravana (Thai Ramayana mural)

- Two beautiful wives mourn beside the body of Ravana as he dies. In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, both the women and Ravana are dressed in royal Siamese clothes and crowns painted with gold leaf paint. The long-haired and fair young women...
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- Demon Ravana and eagle king Sadayu battle in dance performance at Yogyakarta

- The demon king Ravana and the eagle king Sadayu battle in a dance performance at Yogyakarta in July 1986. Here Sadayu's outstretched right wing hits the back of Ravana who, while standing hunched after the blow, swings his sword across his own chest back toward...
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