Rama, Sita and Lakshmana at the hermitage of Sage Bharadwaja

The Hermitage of Sage Bharadwaja, an Indian painting, in the Pahari style, Chamba, Kangra is based on Ramayana, an epic from India.

This painting is from Chamba, an important centre of Pahari painting, located in the Ravi valley in the Himalaya Mountains in India. This miniature, executed in the Kangra style depicts a scene from the great Indian epic, the Ramayana. The exiled Rama, accompanied by Sita and Lakshmana, reach the ashram of the sage Bharadwaja at Paryag, the present day Allahabad, situated at the confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna, Seven huts are grouped at the right with seven rishis.

This miniature is an interesting example of the art of miniature painting which flourished in Chamba from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century, under the patronage of the Rajput kings.