Meanwhile; all is peaceful with the exiles in their abode on the Citraku?a mountain. Rama points out its beauties to Sita - the many varieties of lovely trees and birds; the rocks coloured by gems and minerals; and the Mandakini river which rises in the mountain and flows along the bottom of the picture; with hermits praying; meditating and bathing along it. Rama decorates Sita's forehead with red arsenic and takes her protectively in his arms when a lion growls. They return to the hut; where Lak?ma?a has killed deer and prepared food; which the two brothers eat while Sita keeps the flies away. After they have eaten; an audacious crow annoys Sita. Rama; enraged; takes aim at it with an arrow made of a reed. The crow is refused protection by all in the three worlds (heaven being represented by a pair of divine beings in a heavenly chariot; and the underworld by a snake-king and his queen). It returns to beg for mercy from Rama; who allows his arrow to pierce just the eye of the bird; thereby sparing its life.Udaipur; c. 1653.From: Ramayana.Add. 15296 (1); f. 111London; British Library.