Observe the image and answer the following question.
The painting in the image is Guman’s Rama meets Members of his Family at Chitrakut. How has the artist presented the narrative in this painting?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → From left to right
Option (1) From right to left — Incorrect. Guman starts at the left, so the story does not run from the right.
Option (2) From top to bottom — Incorrect. The episodes are not stacked from top to bottom; they run across the painting.
Option (3) From left to right — Correct. Guman begins the narrative from the left and ends it on the right, as a continuous narrative.
Option (4) From bottom to top — Incorrect. The story moves sideways across the hut setting, not upward.
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Rama meets Members of his Family at Chitrakut This painting of Ramayana by Guman, made between 1740 and 1750, is a classic example of a continuous narrative. Plain looking huts (parna kutir) raised with basic material, such as mud, wood and green leaves set in the woods on the foothills and surrounded by groves establish a typical rural setting, where this episode of Ramayana unfolds. Artist Guman begins the narrative from the left and ends it on the right.”
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