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‖ Ragamala, n. Indian Art.|rɑːgəˈmɑːlɑː|
Also Raga-mala, Rag(-)mala.
[a. Skr. rāgamālā, used in Indian music to denote a series of (usu. 36) ragas, each of which expresses a specific mood or sentiment, f. rāga raga n. + mālā necklace, garland.]
A series of miniature paintings based on situations and vernacular poems inspired by the ragas.
a1794W. Jones Works (1799) I. 431 Similar images [of the personifications of the Rāgas]..are..represented by delicate pencils in the Rágamálàs. 1834N. A. Willard Treat. Music of Hindoostan 63 Very little resemblance remained between the pictures of the Ragmala and that which should have been represented. The generality of amateurs are more solicitous of possessing a copy of the drawings denominated Ragmala than of ascertaining its accuracy. 1920E. B. Havell Handbk. Indian Art III. 211 Specially characteristic of the Hindu artist's spiritual outlook are the pictures representing the Rāg-mālas, or melody-pictures, in which Indian music is translated into pictorial terms. 1948B. Gray Rajput Painting 5 There is..a general Mogulization of Ragmala paintings after 1725. 1973K. Ebeling Ragamala Painting 13 Ragamala paintings are visual interpretations of Indian musical modes previously envisioned in divine or human form by musicians and poets. 1984Art & Artists Mar. 23/2 Ragamala paintings, a particular type of miniature which endeavours to illustrate a poem describing the mood created by music. There are thirty-six moods in a Ragamala, a garland of melody. |