An illustration in the 1305-14
Jami‛ al-Tawarikh
by Rashid al-Din.

Universal History

or Compendium of Chronicles

Ğāmi‛ al-tavārīḫ. Rašīd al-Dīn Fazl-ullāh Hamadānī

Ravan, king of Lanka and king of the demons, lies dead before Rama,
a scene from the Indian epic, the Ramayana


Picture Source: Heydar Aliyev Foundation

Il-Khanid: Tabriz
Khalili Collection, MSS. 727, folio 30b
Fig. 186; p159 Rogers. Fig. 38; K24 Blair.

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