Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.40

c10.40

It is difficult to suggest if pictorial illustrations, answering to these descriptive word pictures, had been painted very much before the sixteenth century, the estimated date of the earliest rāga-mālā pictures. Although no pictorial versions as early as the fifteenth century have yet come to light, there is nothing improbable in such pictures having been painted contemporaneously with the written verses.