Shri Hanuman depicted in Pahari paintings namely #Basohli art –
Amongst the important #Ramayana series found in Jammu Hills there is the Shangri & Mankot series.
The Shangri in Kulu (a large state deep in the Himalayas, north of Mandi and east of Basohli and Kangra), where a branch of the Kulu royal family settled in the 19th Century.
Raja Jagat Singh (1637-72) brought to Kulu in about 1660 an image of Raghunath (Rama) from Ayodhya in Oudh, which was the start of a strong devotion to Bhagwan Shri Ram. Later, during the reign of Raja Man Singh (1688-1719), when Kulu was at its most powerful, the Ramayana was therefore a fitting project which employed the best Kulu artists and the court artists of Basohli and Bilaspur, connected by family to Kulu.
The inscriptions on these folios are in Sanskrit & Takri.
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