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   Opaque watercolour painting of the dark-complexioned, ten-headed and twenty-armed Ravaṇa. All around him are severed heads and arms which were once his own, although he is capable of regenerating new limbs.

   Painted in Thanjavur
   1830 (circa)

   The British Museum

    

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