Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.225

c10.225

style and conception and they can only be judged by the extent of the flavour of the original that they have been able to retain. The Persian verses visualizing Śyām-Gujarī appear to lend the appropriate atmosphere for the melody by calling attention to the enjoyment of nightingale, and to the image of the forlorn heroine, vowed to join her beloved, pouring her sorrows to the peacock, the very picture of intense longing. The version of Dīpak is perhaps less happy; but, the whole series of pictures in this album and the charming verses describing them stand for a very sincere and ardent attempt to get at the ideas behind the conception of Indian melodies.