TY - GEN ED - British Library TI - Kalyan Ragini [slides]: Female ascetic sits on a buck-skin outside a hut playing a vina. She is visited by a prince who sits with his bow and arrow beside him; a gold trumpet, axe, pot and bowl are on the ground U1 - BL-JC CY - London PB - British Library KW - Painting-Murshidabad (India)-1770-75 A.D KW - Mogul painting KW - Ragamala painting KW - Raga, Kalyan KW - Music-India N1 - IGNCA slides collection, cross reference, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library by Toby Falk and Mildred Archer (London 1981) BL-JC 383 (4) (J35)4,p.203; Murshidabad. c1770-75; Johnson Album 35, nos 1-30; Arranged according to a variation of Hanuman's system (see Appendix; p.321); Inscribed with verses of Harivallabha's Hindi version of the Sangita-darpana, and with Sanskrit verses; Gouache with gold paper: mounted on card to provide red borders with black and white inner rules; 245 by 145mm; page 295 by 195mm (approx.); Published: Gangoly (1935). pl.LXXXIV A: Randle (1941), 167: Skelton (1956), 21; Nijenhuis (1971); Ebeling (1973), no. 86; Waldscmidt (1975), 544, no.46; Discussed: Shirreff in MSS. Eur.D.500/3; Johnson Album 35. no.4; Inscription on reverse: (1) Persian rag kalyan and the time of day appropriate ; (2) Persian: kalyan; (3) Hindi: rag megha ki ragini kalyan; (4) Sanskrit verse (2 lines); (5) Hindi kabita(4 lines); (6) Persian description (4 lines) ER -