JAIPUR OR UDAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES
JAIPUR OR UDAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Comprising 19 illustrated folios, opaque pigments heightened with gold, including Desakar Ragini (?), Gauri Ragini, Malsri Ragini, Bangal Ragini, Ramkali Ragini, Desakh Ragini, Dipak Ragini, Todi Ragini, Khambhavati Ragini, Gauri Ragini, Kedar Ragini (?), Desvarati Ragini, Malsri Ragini. Asavari Ragini, Dhanasri Ragini, Malkos Raga, Bhairavi Ragini and Vasant Raga, each with 5-6ll. of devanagari above, with large red borders

Each folio 15 7/8 x 10 ½in. (40.2 x 26.8cm.)

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Lot Essay

Ragamala or the 'Garland of Ragas' is the visual depiction of musical modes. Each Raga belongs to a family : Bhairav, dedicated to Shiva ; Malkos, Hindol, Megh, Deepak and Sri. Ragamala paintings are bringing together poetry and classical music. Each raga's essence is captured and symbolised by a hero or heroine, a colour or a scene, and thus a mood, and has subsets, identified as family members such as the raginis, or wives of the ragas. They thus identify at what time of the year or of the day the musical mode must be played and the deity they are dedicated to : for example Gauri Ragini, a Sri raga, is an evening mode assigned to autumn, and its mood is contemplative.

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