rāgamālā
Indian music
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depiction of musical modes
- In South Asian arts: Deccani style
…symbolically the musical modes (rāgamālā) also survives. Of illustrated manuscripts, the most important are the Nujūm-ul-ʿulūm (“The Stars of the Sciences,” 1590; Chester Beatty Library, Dublin) and the Tārīf-e Ḥuseyn-Shāhī (Bharata Itihasa Samshodhaka Mandala, Pune), painted around 1565 in the neighbouring state of Ahmadnagar. The sultanate of Golconda also…
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paintings by Sāhibdīn
- In Sāhibdīn
…that have survived are the rāgamālā (musical modes) series dated 1628, of which many paintings are now in the National Museum of India; a series on the scriptural text the Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, painted in 1648, now in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune; and the sixth book (Yuddha-kāṇḍa) of the Hindu…
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