This image has illustrated king Dasarata’s journey to Mithila for Rama’s wedding. Dasaratha is going to Mithila from Ayodhya to his son Rama’s wedding with Sita with his royal army. The happiness and joy for the wedding party of guests and the king’s has expressed out in the image. It is a very colorful image. Red, yellow, and green these colors has been used a lot. The king is wearing a dark yellow color dress, has crown on his head, a sword in his waist and sitting on the top of the horse car with his two maids. One of the made is sitting in front of him and the other one is sitting in the back holding an umbrella. The way the image of the king has drawn it makes him different from everyone else, illustrates that he is the king and shows his importance. In addition, all the guests are wearing colorful dresses. They have held colorful flags, playing flutes and drums. The horse cars have been decorated too with colorful clothes. Playing flutes, drums, wearing colorful clothes and holding colorful flags, all of these things symbolize that this is a wedding rally. In addition, the artist has used color a lot in this image and that makes the image a wedding rally image because color is a symbol of Asian wedding. The use of variety of colors, the dressing style and the decoration has expressed it out that this is an image of a wedding rally. In addition, the image has also expressed that people are very happy and interested about the wedding.
This image is the part of the story when Dasaratha went to Mithila from Ayodhya for his son Rama’s wedding with his royal army and guests. “The line of movement was continuous from Ayodhya to Mithila. King Dasaratha’s party was the last one to arrive” (page 31, the Ramayana). The book has described that when Dasaratha went to Janaka’s palace with his army, then Janaka came to receive him with his wife. However, it has not been shown in the image. The book has also described about their journey that they had traveled a long way from Ayodhya to Mithila , and stopped at some places for resting . Dasaratha has performed some religious rituals before starting his journey for Rama’s wedding. “Dasaratha , after performing his daily duties and religious rites and presentation of gifts to Brahmins , started to leave his palace”( page 31, The Ramayana). The book has emphasized more on their rituals and their journey. The image has just illustrated the wedding rally . The image has emphasized more on the dressing style and decoration.