Everyone can we please have your attention ,here i have a beautiful piece of digital art,i found this on a site and i would like to know the artist. Mythology is really magical.Sorry about the photo quality.
@chippedcupofchai also wanted Sarama/Vibhishana for the Song Shuffle Meme, for which I got “Katiya Karun” from Rockstar.
As part of her dowry, Sarama brings with her hanks of fine wool--and doesn’t need more than a few hours spent in Lanka’s balmy heat to realize how badly she’s erred.
“How curious,” Mandodari, always kind, murmurs. “You must show us how it’s done”--and even Princess Meenakshi, once she’s stifled her giggles, agrees--but Sarama does not want the habit of her childhood to become only one more hobby for the rich of Lanka to take up and abandon. At home, it had meant the difference between frostbite and survival: the sign of a practical woman. Here it is only a pastime for the rich.
She takes to spinning only in the kitchens, to the accompaniment of her husband’s grinding of the spices he uses in his own cooking; and if the yarn she forms smells rather of turmeric and cardoman, Sarama delights in it.
The best part of being a child, Bharat thinks later, was that no one expected him to do anything. The firstborn is the hope of the kingdom; the second son free to do exactly as he pleased. Rama shielding him even then, he realizes later, from dangers he didn’t even know of.
eating
Bharat is praised and petted by his mothers for eating the more obscure and elaborate foods that his brothers won’t touch: but it’s honestly only because he wants to satisfy his curiosity.
dream
As a boy, randomly fantasizes about running away and living on his wits/supporting himself by his artwork--a week at Nandigram is sufficient to show him how very much he depends on the comforts of the palace.
bedroom
Incredibly and absolutely messy: the maidservants refuse to clean there anymore.
music
He doesn’t enjoy it as much as his brothers do, as, even when it is not at all noisily played, it tends to distract him; he much prefers silence.
fears
He watched a stable boy get savaged by one of his father’s angry stallions (when he’d snuck out alone, meaning he could never confess to it) -- and since then, no matter how experienced he is in riding and driving horses, maintains a healthy....wariness of them.
Urmila
childhood
Her sister is the miracle, and Urmila its afterthought: she ought to be jealous, she suppose, but instead she only brags to all who will hear of how she, Urmila, is the one Sita loves best in all the world.
eating
She loves pickles, as much as Sita hates them (”So much work,” her sister sniffs, “and for something that doesn’t even taste natural!”) and slips them, subtly, off Sita’s plate every time.
dream
Even after she returns from Nidra Devi’s service, Urmila never makes much of the contents of her dreams: some of them might be foretellings, true, but all too well Urmila knows how they can be mistaken or misinterpreted.
bedroom
The greatest shock is opening her eyes for the first time in fourteen years and realizing she no longer recognizes her own bedroom.
music
Urmila likes flutes and gentle woodwinds; they remind her of the instruments the farmers used to play in her childhood home.
fears
Urmila hates the darkness: always has, and always will.
Kaikeyi
childhood
Her father prefers not to be reminded of her mother, and so when the lonely Kaikeyi dresses and explores and learns to fight, alongside her brothers, he is pleased to see her looking nothing alike. It is Manthara who keeps the memory alive within Kaikeyi, Manthara who gives her something to grieve and to love.
eating
Kaikeyi has episodes of-- “worrying,” Sumitra calls it delicately-- when she eats only enough to stay alive and weighs and measures portions against all reason. Perhaps the greatest disservice Ayodhya does Kaikeyi is laugh this off as simply her wanting to stay slim, rather than recognizing it as anything more serious.
dream
She is chasing after something precious (her mother, Dasharatha, Bharat, Rama) who has left her, and though she calls and cries, they never turn around.
bedroom
The most extravagant and expensive decorations cover the floors and walls: Kaikeyi insists on this, though personally she finds them all uncomfortable and unpleasing to the eye.
music
Kaikeyi loves music, and is a great patron of the arts; she has a natural ear to recognize talent, even in the most humble, and sponsors her proteges’ lessons, all the way up to performances in the royal court.
fears
She is terrified of birds: beady eyes, sharp claws, and worst of all, her father’s spies, always ready to tell tales of her mistakes and mischief--
Angad
childhood
As a boy, he thinks himself the luckiest in the world: to be loved by not two, but four sets of parents! Father is strong, and Mother wise, Uncle Sugriva kind, and Aunt Ruma funny--no matter what Angad might need, he can find it in one of them.
eating
Wine is sour on his lips: along among his family, Angad always asks for water to accompany his meals instead.
dream
He wonders, once or twice, what might have been if he’d dared stop Father--if he’d dared speak up--and he forces himself to stop, because to dwell on those dreams only makes his heart hurt.
bedroom
As Crown Prince, his chambers ought to be near his parents’ and Aunt Ruma’s--but it takes only one night of overhearing muffled arguments and sobs for him to insist on being moved back to the children’s wing of the palace.
music
Uncle Sugriva is the musician of the family, and well Angad remembers Father teasing him for it.
fears
Father does not speak of how it was, being shut up in that cave all alone for days: but Angad dreads it enough for both of them.
Vibhishana
childhood
Ravana is the oldest, almost fourteen when Vibhishana is born; and since Father leaves when Vibhishana is barely five years old, he knows no better protector.
eating
He prefers preparing meals to eating them: the pleasure of taste is nothing to seeing happiness on his family’s faces.
dream
He remembers Father now only in his dreams; and it’s with some surprise that he sees that Kubera, out of all of them, resembles him most.
bedroom
His and Sarama’s bedroom is scented with fresh flowers and incense: the one thing Sarama is particular about.
music
Ravana grades the performance of his musicians on their technical expertise, and Vibhishana on the emotions they elicit: it is one of the earliest subjects on which they disagree.
fears
He comes to care for Lanka’s wellbeing only late in life; and he fears this is a fault of his that will cause not only his own damnation, but the kingdom’s.
Sarama
childhood
As much as she loves Lanka, and her husband and daughter, Sarama knows she was never happier than when she was a girl.
eating
She is an enthusiastic eater, and sometimes she jokes that Vibhishana has no other reason to love her so.
dream
Sarama wants to take Kala to see her childhood haunts, but a princess of Lanka invites only danger by roaming too far from home: so say her in-laws, and Sarama subsides.
music
She grows up surrounded by music, and (though she wisely holds her tongue) even Lanka’s finest performers cannot compare to her uncles.
fears
As a baby, Sarama wailed at the thought of being pulled under the waves, and even when older, she dreads drowning no less: so, she thinks bitterly, of course her marriage should draw her towards life on an island.
