India: Above: Dipak Raga riding elephant, with four female attendants during Divali; Below: Sri Raga seated, with three female attendants, a musician playing a vina and a Kinnara (heavenly musician with a horse's head). (Ragmala miniature painting, c.1800

Ragamala Paintings are a series of illustrative paintings from medieval India based on Ragamala or the 'Garland of Ragas', depicting various Indian musical nodes, Ragas. They stand as a classical example of the amalgamation of art, poetry and classical music in medieval India. Ragamala paintings were created in most schools of Indian painting, starting in the 16th and 17th centuries and are today named accordingly, as Pahari Ragamala, Rajasthan or Rajput Ragamala, Deccan Ragamala, and Mughal Ragamala.

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