Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.154

c10.154

manners of the late Moghul miniatures does not take us earlier than the nineteenth century. Probably these examples are copies of earlier versions. The illustrations were evidently painted to justify the peculiar versions indicated in the Hindī texts. The style of Peāray Raṅgalāl, in spite of the pretentious and long-winded rhythm of his verses, is somewhat heavy, artificial and turbid and lacks the grace and easy flow of the earlier rāga-mālā texts. We have no certain data as to the date of this text, unless we can identify him with Raja Surajmall’s court-poet.