A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.5

c20.s2.5

The thirteen Hindu names in Abūl Fazl's list are:—(5) Daswanth; (6) Basāwan; (7) Kesū (Kesava); (8) Lāl; (9) Mukund; (10) Mādho; (11) Jagan[nāth]; (12) Mahēsh; (13) Khemkaran; (14) Tārā; (15) Sānwlah; (16) Haribans; and (17) Rām. The signatures of all the seventeen artists named by Abūl Fazl appear in the Clarke MS., except Haribans, No. 16; and reappear in the Jaipur *Razmnāmah*, excepting Nos. 1, 2, and 16. I do not remember seeing any picture signed by Haribans. There were two Mādhos, the Elder (*Kalān*) and the Younger (*Khurd*). Kesū (Kesava) and some other artists are similarly duplicated in the signatures. Abūl Fazl probably referred to the elder persons bearing the names. In the *Razmnāmah* I have noted twenty-eight names, of whom twenty or twenty-one are Hindu.