Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.149

c10.149

As may be judged from examples cited on the above plates and the simple diction of the verses, free from obscurities, this series of Hindī texts remind one of the grace and beauty of the text of Harivallabha, with whom Lāl Kavi appears to have occasional correspondence in ideas and in words. Without a comparative study of the style and of philological and phonetic peculiarities, it is difficult to say if the author of this rāga-mālā text is identical with the court poet of Bundela Rājā Chhatraśāl who espoused the cause of Aurangzib and fought against Dara Shuko at the battle of Dholpur (1658 A.D.).¹ The style of the miniatures