Women pick fruit in fertile garden (Thai Ramayana mural) 1136091600

Women pick fruit in fertile garden (Thai Ramayana mural)

Women pick fruit in fertile garden (Thai Ramayana mural)

Women pick fruit in a fertile garden, as painted on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple.

Four women move contentedly around a lush landscape with colorful flowers and ripe fruit growing around boulders. A woman on the right reaches over a boulder to pick fruit, while three others gather together in the background standing by a pond. In the Ramayana, when Sita and Rama are finally reunited harmoniously, they rule for many years over a happy kingdom where there are timely rains, fertile lands, and abundant harvests.

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