Date: mid-19th century
Description: Top row: Rama and Lakshmana meet Sugriva; Rama fells the seven trees and his arrow pierces a mountain(?); He kicks Dundubhi’s carcass in the air; Second row: Sugriva prostrates before Rama; Sugriva speaks to Hanuman; Rama entrusts his signet ring to Hanuman; Hanuman kills an asura (?); Third row: once in Lanka, Hanuman looks for Sita; Ravana speaks to Sita captive in the ashoka grove, Hanuman is concealed in the crown of a tree; Sita tries to hang herself from a branch, when Hanuman appears in front of her first as a small monkey, then as his majestic self; Fourth row: Hanuman taken captive, sits on his coiled tail before Ravana and the assembled rakshasas.
Location: Tamil Nadu Palace;Bodinayakkanur
Positioning: Darbar Hall