Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.8

c10.8

Plate XXXIX. is the first of the series, and illustrates the beginning of the Râmâyana legend which tells how Dasaratha, King of Ayodhya, being childless, obtains from Vishnu by the aid of sacrifices a divine elixir, through drinking which his three wives conceive and bear him four godlike sons, Râma, Lakshman, Satrughna, and Bharat.