Fighting Arjuna, Susarma Unleashes the Suparna Weapon which Invokes Garuda
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Title
Fighting Arjuna, Susarma Unleashes the Suparna Weapon which Invokes Garuda
Mapping in Color Item Type Metadata
Title
Fighting Arjuna, Susarma Unleashes the Suparna Weapon which Invokes Garuda
Classification
Codices
Link
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451318
Repository
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Number
55.121.34
Provenance
Jack S. Rofe, Scotland (until 1929; his sale, Sotheby's, London, December 12, 1929, nos. 702, 704, 705, 707, 1537); [ Hagop Kevorkian, New York, by 1953]; [ Kevorkian Foundation, New York, until 1955; sold to MMA]
Parent Work
1616-17 Razmnama
Sequential order of folio
13 (based on Seyller's reconstruction, 1985)
Date
1616–17
Location
Burhanpur, India
Style
Mughal (sub-imperial atelier)
Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Size (H x W cm)
34.7 cm x 22 cm
Publications
Robinson, Basil William. The Kevorkian Collection: Islamic and Indian Illustrated Manuscripts, Miniature Paintings and Drawings. New York, 1953. no. CCCLXXIV, p. 145.
Seyller, John. ""The Freer Ramayana and Other Illustrated Manuscripts of 'Abd al-Rahim."" In Workshop and Patron in Mughal India. Zurich, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1999. pp. 266, 267, ill. fig. 181 (b/w).
Landau, Amy S. ""Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts."" In Pearls on a String. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2015. p. 152, ill. fig. 5.6 (color).
Seyller, John. ""The Freer Ramayana and Other Illustrated Manuscripts of 'Abd al-Rahim."" In Workshop and Patron in Mughal India. Zurich, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1999. pp. 266, 267, ill. fig. 181 (b/w).
Landau, Amy S. ""Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts."" In Pearls on a String. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2015. p. 152, ill. fig. 5.6 (color).
Collection
Citation
“Fighting Arjuna, Susarma Unleashes the Suparna Weapon which Invokes Garuda,” Mapping Color, accessed April 12, 2026, https://mappingcolor.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/174.