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Ascetics making music, illustrating the musical mode Kedara Ragafront

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Ascetics making music, illustrating the musical mode Kedara Raga

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  • Description

    The musical mode Kedara is visualised as two yogis or ascetics making music within a small pavilion. Seated on a leopard skin, a traditional seat of yogis who have mastered the temptations of the sensual world, the vina player improvises a raga, gazing with concentration at his companion who beats the tala or rhythmic cycle with cymbals.

  • Details

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    Series
    Garland of Ragas
    Associated place
    Asia › India › north-west India › Punjab Hills › Himachal Pradesh › Arki (probable place of creation)
    Date
    late 17th century
    Material and technique
    gouache on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 29.6 x 26.2 x 1.5 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 21.2 x 18.2 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting › ragamala
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.87

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 59 on p. 142, pp. 18 & 19, illus. p. 143

Glossary

Raga

  • Raga

    Raga (feminine ragini) are musical modes, often represented by compositions of ladies, lovers, warriors, animals or gods, in series of Ragamala ('Garland of Ragas') paintings, a very popular artistic genre in north India and the Deccan c. 1500 - 1800.

Past Exhibition

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Location

    • Returned to lender

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