Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Battle at Lanka, Ramayana, Udaipur, 1649-53

Battle at Lanka, Ramayana by Sahibdin

Original - Battle at Lanka, Ramayana by Sahibdin. It depicts monkey army of the protagonist Rama (top left, blue figure) fighting the demon-king of the king of Lanka, Ravana in order to save Rama's kidnapped wife Sita. The painting depicts multiple events in the battle against the three-headed demon general Trisiras, in bottom left - Trisiras is beheaded by the monkey-companion of Rama - Hanuman.

Reason

Very good quality and resolution. Also adds encyclopedic value to the article. Already a FP at commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Ramayana, Sahibdin

Creator

Sahibdin

• Support as nominator --TheMandarin (talk) 09:51, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
• Support as:
  • Already a FP at a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons (passed with 6 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral) and on the Turkish Wikipedia
  • Nothing similar to this genre in current FPs
  • Rather strange image as it is a depiction of the great climax war of the Hindu epic Ramayana (there are only 2 Hindu epics) by a Muslim artist Sahibdin from the Mewar school of Rajput painting

Disclosure: Suggested TheMandarin the nomination on his talk. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 13:09, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

• Note: Online ref to support that Trisiras or Trisira (lit. "three-headed") battled with Hanuman as described in chapter Yuddha Khanda of Ramayana by Valmiki. There is another Trisira in Ramayana killed by child Rama in Bala Khanda [1]. Another Trisiras exists in Hindu mythology. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 13:31, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Spikebrennan (talk) 15:57, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom.  franklin  14:29, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 10:50, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

• Am I missing something here? Why was this not promoted? -- mcshadypl ^TC 01:30, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
  • It lacks the 5 supports necessary for promotion. Makeemlighter (talk) 03:13, 18 January 2010 (UTC)