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"inscription": "[[upper center, in French]] Sougrihoad",
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"inscription_remark": "For a similar work in context, see G\u00e9rard Colas, Usha Colas-Chauhan, and Francis Richard, \"Text and Paintings: A Preliminary Study of Indien 745, a Manuscript of the Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France,\" in Cracow Indological Studies, vol. XXIV, no. 2 (2022), pp. 25-58.",
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"inscription": "[[lower center, in Telegu]] sugrihu\u1e43\u1e0du",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1975",
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"title": "Imagining Rama\u2019s Journey",
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"description": "Khadgaroma, Son of Ravana, c. 1720. Southern India, Andhra Pradesh. Gum tempera, ink, and hand-colored silver paper appliqu\u00e9 on paper; overall: 39.7 x 27.6 cm (15 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward, 2001.163",
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"did_you_know": "Instead of gold, artists applied strips of paper, colored with a mixture of silver paint and an organic yellow pigment called gamboge.",
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"description": "The seated monkey king Sugriva presents the \u201cfear not\u201d gesture with his right hand. He served as Rama\u2019s faithful ally during the war against Ravana. This work appears to have been made for French Jesuit missionaries by South Indian temple muralists. During the 1700s, missionaries commissioned sets of paintings from which they learned about the gods and literary figures popular among the people of the region.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1975.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (1976): 31\u201371.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 71, no. 184",
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"citation": "Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Oriental Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1986.",
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