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In these painting each raga is personified by a colour, mood, a verse describing a story of a hero and heroine (nayaka and nayika), it also elucidates the season and the time of day and night in which a particular raga is to be sung; and finally most paintings also demarcate the specific Hindu
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is an important 12th century CE treatise on the classification of Indian Ragas, which for the first time mentions the presiding deity of each raga. From the 14th century onwards, they were described in short verses in
Sanskrit, for
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The six principal ragas present in the
Ragamala are Bhairava, Deepak, Sri, Malkaunsa, Megha and Hindola and these are meant to be sung during the six seasons of the year – summer, monsoon, autumn, early winter, winter and spring.
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Ragamala paintings were created in most schools of Indian painting, starting in the 16th and 17th centuries, and are today named accordingly as Pahari
Ragamala, Rajasthan or Rajput Ragamala, Deccan Ragamala, and Mughal Ragamala.
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Six are male (parent) ragas; the thirty raginis are their wives and the remaining forty-eight are their sons. These are listed is as follows:
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Ragamala: Painted Indian Melodies and the Poetry of Kshemakarna, by Ludwig V. Habighorst. Koblenz: Ragaputra Edition, 2006.
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deities attached with the raga, like
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and show distinct iconography and raga groups from other regions.
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Ragamala
Paintings, Cornell University Digital Collections
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16:Form of miniature painting
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803:Categories
657:References
642:Two lovers
447:Nasiruddin
443:Dipak Raga
404:Ahmadnagar
276:, Kamoda.
532:Ruknuddin
79:ragaputri
75:ragaputra
757:(1966).
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699:Archived
670:Ragamala
624:Nainsukh
558:Bilaspur
488:Sahibdin
306:Sri raga
248:Dhanasri
219:Bhairavi
176:Sahibdin
157:Sanskrit
48:Ragamala
646:Odishan
603:Malpura
536:Bikaner
365:Gallery
321:Asavari
172:Bijapur
89:History
71:raginis
351:Sorath
274:Basant
142:Mughal
121:dhyana
104:Sirohi
809:Ragas
530:, by
510:Malwa
466:Bundi
380:Mewar
347:Wives
329:Gaund
317:Gauri
313:Wives
288:Wives
266:Wives
240:Wives
215:Wives
161:Megha
67:Ragas
52:ragas
30:Amber
581:Bahu
359:Sons
341:raga
339:Megh
335:(6)
325:Sons
302:(5)
296:Sons
292:Todi
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