Ravana fighting with Jatayu, 1913. Artist: K Venkatappa

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Ravana fighting with Jatayu, 1913. A scene from the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. Jatayu, a demi-god in the form of a vulture, fighting Ravana, the most powerful mortal with ten heads and twenty hands, who has abducted Rama's wife, Sita. Illustration from Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists by Sister Nivedita and Ananda Coomaraswamy, 1st edition, 1913. From a private collection.

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