id: 147129 accession number: 1973.103 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.103 updated: 2023-03-14 10:01:06.912000 Sugriva challenges his brother Vali, King of the Forest Dwellers, to a duel, folio 10 from the Kishkindha Kanda (Book of Kishkindha) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey), c. 1700–1720. Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Nurpur, Court of Dayadhata (reigned 1700–1735). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; image: 16.4 x 26.8 cm (6 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.); page: 20.7 x 31 cm (8 1/8 x 12 3/16 in.); with mat: 36.3 x 49 cm (14 5/16 x 19 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1973.103 title: Sugriva challenges his brother Vali, King of the Forest Dwellers, to a duel, folio 10 from the Kishkindha Kanda (Book of Kishkindha) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1700–1720 creation date earliest: 1690 creation date latest: 1725 current location: 242B Indian Painting creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Nurpur, Court of Dayadhata (reigned 1700–1735) technique: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 16.4 x 26.8 cm (6 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.); Page: 20.7 x 31 cm (8 1/8 x 12 3/16 in.); with mat: 36.3 x 49 cm (14 5/16 x 19 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: [[verso, in Sanskrit]] evamuktastu sugrīvo rāmeṇa ripu ghātina gachāmī tpajavī hṛīshṛī ghayā tāsteya satvaram. kiṣkimdhyaṁ tvaritaṁ gatvā deshe pādapa saṁkule. vṛikshairātmā tamāvrīptate tiṣṭha nāhate chate. atha rāmo javī tatra sugrīvaṁ priyavādi namra. kurunadaṁ guhādvāri sthitva tvama kuto bhayaḥ. vali taṁ chaṣkaya yathā niṣyate ta guhā mukhāt. tamahaṁ niha niṣyā miśareṇā śani varcasā. evamuktetu vacane kākusthe nāmi tau jasā. nādaḥ [a]sti gadhotha gambhīro mahānā sītthadā divi. mālāca kāṁcanī divyānā nā ratnā vibhūṣitā. divaḥ sugrīva mūrchānama bhito nipa pātaha. sāca pitrā sutaste hādā ditpe na divau kasā. vāli no mālayā tulyā sutaste hai nirmitā. tato nadanmahānādaṁ valiṁ samāiyat. sugrīvo gaḍha saṁvīto nā daiṁrmi danti vāṁvaram. ityārthe rāṃyaṇo kiṣkiṁdhākāṁde valī samāhvanaṁ. translation: remark: inscription: [[verso, left center, in Devanagari script]] 10 translation: remark: inscription: [[verso, bottom center, in Takri script]] 10 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). title: Imagining Rama's Journey (Indian Painting rotation) opening date: 2023-03-10T05:00:00 Imagining Rama's Journey (Indian Painting rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-September 17, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 4 - August 5, 2003). --- PROVENANCE (William H. Wolff, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1973 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1973– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The orange monkey Hanuman and the princes Lakshmana and Rama hide behind trees while Sugriva calls for Vali. digital description: wall description: In a morally ambiguous scene, the white monkey Sugriva calls to his brother Vali, the rightful king of the forest-dwellers, to emerge from a cave. Behind him, the blue hero Rama hides with his brother and monkey ally Hanuman. Clutching a deadly three-pronged arrow, Rama prepares to slay Vali, so Sugriva will rise as king and be obliged to help locate Rama’s lost wife.

Paintings from this series illustrate a local Himalayan Ramayana. Their distinctive style incorporates rock formations and textiles reinterpreted from Mughal sources, probably brought to Nurpur when the Mughal emperor retreated there during the hot season. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78. page number: Mentioned: no. 198, p. 79; Reproduced: no. 198, p. 61. url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 309. url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n329 Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Oriental Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1986. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 137, pp. 312–314. url: Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華: 特别展: クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 33, cat. no. 12. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.103/1973.103_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.103/1973.103_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.103/1973.103_full.tif