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Title

Rāg darshan.

Authors

• Khushhāl Khān

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00004988)
• Anūpa Saṃskr̥ta Pustakālaya, Bīkānera, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84206223)

Call number

Oversize LJS 63
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949529953503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706130220
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3tq0p https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs63.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Dakhini

Origin

Date

A.H. 1214-1219 (1799-1804)

Place

Hyderabad, India

Summary

Treatise on the modes of Indian music, based on the fifth chapter of Mirza Khan's Tuḥfat al-hind. Visual representations of each mode depict a male Raga with between four and six female Raginis. The selection and sequence of Ragas and Raginis is according to the Hanuman system and the iconographic tradition of the images is that of Amber in Rajasthan. Other miniatures depict scenes at court and include images of the courtesan Māh-i Liqā, also known as Malaqa Bai; the author Khushhāl Khān; and the patron Rajah Rao Ranbha. The text is followed by a commentary, possibly added to it the 19th century when it was housed in its current binding (Savita Ananthan).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. f.1v-24v: [Rāgamālā text and illustrations]
   
• 2. f.25v-43v: [Commentary]
   

Extent

43 leaves : 362 x 250 (290 x 198) mm bound to 367 x 260 mm

Collation

Paper, iv (19th-century paper) + 43 + iv (19th-century paper); 1⁸ 2² 3⁸ 4⁴ 5¹² 6⁸(+1); early foliation in ink (f. 2-24), 2-8, 11-12, 9-10, 13-24, lower center recto; modern foliation in pencil, [1-43], upper left recto. References in this record are to the modern foliation. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century gilt morocco; binding label of Ghulam Qutabuddin Ahmad (label inside upper cover, transcribed and translated by Sudev Sheth), associated with Salar Jung III (also known as Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, 1889-1949) (Savita Ananthan).

Layout

Written in 4 columns of 19 lines; text block enclosed in narrow frame of silver and double lines in red ink, outer edge of margins delineated with single line of red ink..

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece (f. 1v) and 52 miniatures: 14 scenes of rulers or nobles (f. 2r-8r, 18r-24r), 1 of a lute (f. 5r), 36 of families of Ragas and Raginis (f. 8r-17r), and 1 group of 6 small landscapes (f. 17v). Paintings by court artist Haji Mir Ghulam Hasan (identified in painting on f. 24r (Savita Ananthan)).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq script in black and red ink by a single hand.

Provenance

• Commissioned by Maratha military commander Raja Rao Ranbha (Savita Ananthan).
   
• Unidentified bookplate (inside upper cover); at one time held in Anūpa Saṃskr̥ta Pustakālaya, the Anup Sanskrit Library in the Bīkāner royal library until it was sold in the 1960s (Sheth-Fogg correspondence).
   
• Purchased by Sam Fogg (London), 1996 (Sheth-Fogg correspondence).
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1996.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
   

Subjects topical

• Music--Early works to 1800
• Music theory--India--Early works to 1800
• Music theory
• Miniature painting, Indic
• Rāgamālā painting
• Music
• India
• Music in art
• Music in art
• Ragas
• Ragas
• Rāgamālā painting--Specimens
• Miniature painting, Indic--Specimens

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• illuminated manuscripts
• Manuscripts, Indic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Indic--19th century
• Specimens

Keywords

• Treatise
• 18th century
• 19th century
• Indian
• India
• Illumination

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Ra?gama?la? text and illustrations, f. 1v
• fol. 25v — Commentary, f. 25v

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Miniature, Nizam Alikhan Bahadur (Asaf Jah II) (sitting) and Amir A'zam Muthir al-Mulk (bowing), f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Miniature, Raja Rao Rabanha (?) Bahadur and Chanda Mimi (Bibi) Mah Nagabani (?), with attendants and red bird in cage, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Miniature, Raja Rao Rabanha (?) Bahadur (on elephant), with Khushhal Khan (below), and soldiers, led by an elephant with orange banner, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Miniature, Shah Adarang (?) Sahib (Mian Firuz Khan) with Tansin, Mian Karim Khan, and musicians, Shah Sadarang Sahib and Mian Ni'mat Khan, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Miniature, Raja Rao Rabanha (?) Bahadur sitting with Khushbal Khan, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Miniature, Raja Rao Rabanha (?) Bahadur with Shir Muhamad Khan Ima(n) and man with two tigers, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Miniature, Lute, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Miniature, Raja Rao Rabanha (?) Bahadur and man in Kurnool headdress, f. 5v
• fol. 8r — Miniature, Raja Rao Rabanha (?) Bahadur with Kurnool man and man with bird cage and bird on table, f. 8r
• fol. 8r — Miniature, Bhairav Raga, as Siva, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Miniature, Malkus Raga, fanned by femal attendant and greeting a woman, f. 8v
• fol. 8v — Miniature, Hindol Raga and woman seated on swing, with three female attendants, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Miniature, Todi Ragini holding vina, with four gazelles, one black and white with horns, f. 9r
• fol. 9r — Miniature, Gauri Ragini holding lute, with female attendant, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Miniature, Gunakali Ragini beside white building, with female attendant, f. 9v
• fol. 9v — Miniature, Khanbhavati Ragini smoking beneath canopy, with three musicians and two dancers, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Miniature, Vilaval Ragini seated and gazing into mirror held by one of two female attendants, f. 10r
• fol. 10r — Miniature, Lalit Ragini seated, with a blue-skinned, crowned figure at her feet and a female attendant holding a pitcher beside her, f. 10r
• fol. 10v — Miniature, Desakh Ragini, with wrestlers, juggler, acrobat, and archer, f. 10v
• fol. 10v — Miniature, Ramakali Ragini seated, with two female attendants, f. 10v
• fol. 11r — Miniature, Dipak Raga riding elephant, with four female attendants (illustration of Divali), f. 11r
• fol. 11r — Miniature, Sri Raga seated, with three female attendants, a musician playing a vina and a Kinnara (heavenly musician with a horse's head), f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Miniature, Megha Raga, as Krishna, holding a saber, with four female attendants, f. 11v
• fol. 11v — Miniature, Bhairavi Ragini tending Shiva shrine, with two female attendants, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Miniature, Bhairav (or Vairari) Raga caressing a woman, with two female musicians, f. 12r
• fol. 12r — Miniature, Madhumadhavi Ragini kissing her lover, while a female attendant prepares their bedchamber, f. 12v
• fol. 12v — Miniature, Sindhavi Ragini tending a Siva altar with an ox, with two femal attendants, f. 12v
• fol. 12v — Miniature, Bangali Ragini and a female attendant, wearing only capes and culottes, receiving ritual instruction from Brahmin, who holds a trident, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Miniature, Bavari Ragini, with meal placed on the ground, with a female attendant, f. 13r
• fol. 13r — Miniature, Patmanjari Ragini, conversing with an old woman, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Miniature, Desi Raga (identified as Dipak Raga) with man standing before her, f. 13v
• fol. 13v — Miniature, Kamod Ragini holding a green bird, with a female musician, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Miniature, Nat Ragini on horseback and holding a sword above decapitated body, about to attack a second enemy, f. 14r
• fol. 14r — Miniature, Kedara Ragini, wearing cape and culottes with a crescent moon on her forehead and sitting on tiger-skin run, with female attendant, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Miniature, Kanara Ragini holding sword and shield, with white elephant with severed tusk and two male attendants, f. 14v
• fol. 14v — Miniature, Malasri Ragini with five female attendants, with one presenting a green bird, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Miniature, Dhanasri Ragini (identified as Maru Ragini) sitting along beneath trees, gazing at city, f. 15r
• fol. 15r — Miniature, Maru Ragini (identified as Dhanasri Ragini) gazing at fountain, with female attendant, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Miniature, Vasant Ragini, blue-skinned and crowned, with seven female musicians and dancers, f. 15v
• fol. 15v — Miniature, Asavari Ragini, blue-skinned, charming snakes and fish with wind instrument, with attendant sitting in tree, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Miniature, Tanka Ragini reclining on bed, speaking with elderly woman, with female attendant massaging her feet, f. 16r
• fol. 16r — Miniature, Mallar Ragini, with female musician, female attendant massaging her hand, and two peacocks, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Miniature, Gujari Ragini reclining and gazing at a black and white cat, f. 16v
• fol. 16v — Miniature, Bhupali Ragini, embraced by blue-skinned lover, with two female attendants, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Miniature, Desakara Ragini (?) with lover and female attendant, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Miniature, Six vignettes of different weather and seasons, including one scene of holi, f. 17v
• fol. 18r — Miniature, Raja Rao Bahadur hunting on horseback with bird and hound, with cheetah pulled on chariot, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Miniature, Raja watching flock of birds, with bird man holding bird and net, f. 18v
• fol. 19r — Miniature, Raja watching horseman and man with staff, f. 19r
• fol. 20r — Miniature, Raja Rao Bahadur, with Khushal Khan, Djhazi Khan, and two musicians, f. 20r
• fol. 23v — Miniature, Holi Raja and Chanda Bibi with Khushal Khan and numerous attendants, f. 23v
• fol. 24r — Miniature, Chanda Bibi dancing for the Raja, f. 24r
• fol. 24v — Colophons, f. 24v