A Wikipedia article on the god Hanuman, covering his birth, his devotion to Rama, and his exploits in the Ramayana, including the episode during the war in Lanka when Lakshmana was mortally wounded and only a herb from a Himalayan mountain could save him. Unable to identify the single needed herb among the many growing on the mountainside, Hanuman instead grew to the size of a mountain, tore the whole mountain from the earth, and flew it back to the battlefield. The article states this story is the popular basis for the standard iconography in which Hanuman is shown flying while carrying a mountain on his upraised palm, and notes sculptures of Hanuman from the Chola dynasty of the 11th century and the Vijayanagara Empire of the 14th century onward, as well as prints from the Ravi Varma Press of the 1910s.
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to narrate the Ramayana episode the painting depicts and to confirm the flying-with-mountain composition as the standard iconographic type, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue record for this exact painting. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Hanuman directly: "A Wikipedia article on the god Hanuman, covering his birth, his devotion to Rama, and his exploits in the Ramayana, including the episode during the war in Lanka when Lakshmana was mortally wounded..."
This source names Lakshmana directly: "episode during the war in Lanka when Lakshmana was mortally wounded and only a herb from a Himalayan mountain could save him."
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- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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