What is Mewar Ramayana?

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One of the world's most beautiful Rāmāyaṇa manuscripts prepared for Maharana Jagat Singh, the ruler of the Rajput kingdom of Mewar in Rajasthan, in the middle of the 17th century.

The Mewar Rāmāyaṇa, also known as the Jagat Singh Rāmāyaṇa, is the finest copy of the work ever commissioned by a Hindu ruler. The story held a special significance for the Mewar ruling family, as the Sisodiya Rajputs counted Rāma among their direct ancestors in the Solar Dynasty. The care – and expense – lavished upon the manuscript demonstrates that its preparation was a great act of family devotion.

This manuscript is also the most heavily illustrated Rāmāyaṇa known, originally containing perhaps as many as 450 paintings. The large format of each individual painting is also remarkable. This was one of the greatest manuscript projects ever undertaken in India and required close collaboration between teams of painters, although a single scribe copied the text. The manuscript took five years to complete, from 1648 to 1653.

This was the short introduction about Mewar Ramayana by Nannd Kumar

Source: British Library