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English: Detail of ragamala miniature entitled 'Vasanta Ragini'. Image shows Krishna dancing with several women, who are throwing coloured powders. Indicative of the Holi Festival, which marks the advent of Vasanta (Spring), this perhaps suggests the time of year in which this raga was meant to be performed. From left to right, English text reads 'from Calcutta by Kristna Nand Ragsagur 1842, Vasunt Rag. Holley exhibition. To be presented for Her Majesty the Queen Victoria and Presence'. Ragamala paintings are images which depict, in physical form, the 'modes' or scales used in Indian Classical Music, known as ragas. Usually accompanied by an inscription or poem, they elucidate the season and time of day in which a raga was meant to be performed, as well as its mood, and often portray the Hindu deities with which they are individually associated. The concept may have originally come about through the use of personification as an aide memoire for musicians, which then developed into physical imagery. This collection, which is purportedly called the Raga Kalpadruma, originates from Jaipur in Northern India and has the description of the Raga written in Sanskrit on the back of each image. Including some Bengali and English text as well, the collection also contains a few pages from another Indian music manuscript, also written in Sanskrit. It was gifted to Edinburgh University by Dwarkanath Tagore (1794-1846), grandfather of the poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) and is one of two sets of Ragamala paintings in the Oriental Manuscripts Collection, the other being Or.Ms 114. Sources: Watson, L. (2012), What is Ragamala?, http://dulwichonview.org.uk/2012/01/20/what-is-ragamala/ (accessed 05/06/14). http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice/archive/ragamala (accessed 05/06/14) |
Date | 19th century |
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Author | Unknown Author |
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