Sita-Vanvas

[Original caption] Sita Vanawasa :– Sita, when captured by Ravan, the king of Lanka, was carried and kept in a forest named "Ashok-van" by him, and he ordered demons to watch her. This picture represents that Sita sat thinking under a tree. [end]

This image is from the painting Sita in exile by Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906), one of India's finest early painters and through his Press, one of the most important publishers of early lithographs and calendar art in the country.