# Battle at Lanka, from the Mewar Ramayana by Sahib Din (Sahibdin) (1652, within the manuscript programme of 1649–1653)

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- **Painting:** Battle at Lanka, from the Mewar Ramayana
- **Artist:** Sahib Din (Sahibdin)
- **Date:** 1652, within the manuscript programme of 1649–1653
- **Medium:** Ink and colour on paper
- **Dimensions:** Exact dimensions of this folio have not been verified
- **Current location:** British Library, London; Add MS 15297(1), folio 91r
- **Period:** Seventeenth-century Mewar painting
- **Culture:** Udaipur, Mewar, Rajasthan

A battlefield becomes a sequence of stories within one painted page. Monkeys leap across elephants, chariots collide, and a three-headed warrior appears more than once, while blue-skinned Rama watches from the upper left. This is a folio from the lavish Mewar Ramayana, a court manuscript whose pictures connect an epic struggle with the ambitions and ancestry of its royal patrons.

## The story

Part of the Mewar Ramayana commissioned for Maharana Jagat Singh and completed under his successor Raj Singh. The scene belongs to the Yuddha Kanda, the epic's war book. Its movement through royal, colonial and library collections is part of its later history.

## Sources

- [s1] [Exact image record: Battle at Lanka, Ramayana, Udaipur, 1649–53](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_at_Lanka,_Ramayana,_Udaipur,_1649-53.jpg), Wikimedia Commons; image credited to the British Library (image-record)
- [s2] [Vandana Prapanna, Digitally Reunifying the Mewar Ramayana Manuscript, pp. 6–9](https://csmvs.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2013-Newsletter-July-Sept.pdf), Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (museum)
- [s3] [John Brockington, Verbal and Visual Texts of the Rama Narrative, especially pp. 6–7](https://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/4803/4330), Cracow Indological Studies, 2022 (academic)
- [s4] [J. P. Losty, The Mewar Ramayana at the British Library: How the complete digital version came to be](https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2014/06/13/mewar-ramayana/), LSE South Asia; republication of the British Library curator's account (archive)
- [s5] [Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, The Ramayana of Valmiki: The Complete English Translation, index entries for Trisiras](https://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/RG310-Hein/9780691206868.pdf), Princeton University Press; Yale Library copy (academic)
- [s6] [British Library: Rama and Lakshmana bound, from the same Yuddha Kanda manuscript](https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/12459256854), British Library official account (archive)
- [s7] [Add MS 15295–15297 collection catalogue](https://searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/032-002087001), British Library (archive)
- [s8] [J. P. Losty, The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India's Great Epic, bibliographic record and synopsis](https://books.google.com/books?id=_0JRAAAAYAAJ), Niyogi Books, 2008; Google Books record (academic)
- [s9] [Exact photograph caption: Battle Between the Armies of Rama and the King of Lanka](https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/scene-from-the-ramayana-showing-ramas-monkeys-battling-the-news-photo/544237970), Getty Images (secondary)

Editorial review date: 2026-10-01.

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