More than 2,000 years old and 24,000 verses long, the Ramayana is one of the most important Hindu myths. A minutely detailed manuscript of the epic from the 17th century has gone on display for ...

Each page of text held a painting — in all there were 548. The manuscript is also called the Golden Illustrated Ramayana, because of the extensive use of gold paint in its folios. MAP was able ...