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This extremely fine miniature packed with most of the excellences of the great medieval Kangra art is an emotionally charged and realistic depiction of a blissful Indian family where the youngest has been allowed the privilege of riding the eldest and the head bows to the heart. The painting depicts a very private kind of gesture made as much privately but the artist's cameratic eye caught and exposed it and all without a violation of copy-right or a privilege. He circumscribed his canvas by an arch and laid his stage for the great human drama and nature's glory inside its small stretch.

The theme, just a thread to weave his drama with and around, is simple and as much obvious. Drama's hero has been away from home the whole day despite his promise to come back by lunch. By the time he comes back it is evening - the sun has set, darkness lurks in the sky shrouding the earth under its black garb, the transparent blue waters of the lake turn black and birds begin their homeward journey. The hero, obviously a noble, learns, as soon as he enters the house, that his love, aggrieved by his behaviour, has sought isolation and retired to the terrace and she has not taken even a morsel in the lunch.

He rushes to the terrace where his woe-stricken sweet-heart is seated on a carpet laid towards a corner of the terrace. She is clad in a gold bordered pink saree but despite such gaiety of colours her lustrous face looks like a withered rose. The image of grief, she is reclining against a bolster and it is only in the glow of its gold and brilliance of its bight red that her translucent complexion discovers a little of its lustre. The penitent hero instantly prostrates before her on the floor seeking her pardon but the coy maid, without looking at him, only by the gesture of her hand, prays him to rise, though he is unable to comply with her prayer for their son, finding his father in the position of a horse, avails the opportunity and rides on his back. He directs his horse to move towards his mother not knowing who would play the next horse, the horse or the mare ?

This description by Prof. P.C. Jain and Dr Daljeet. Prof. Jain specializes on the aesthetics of ancient Indian literature. Dr Daljeet is the chief curator of the Visual Arts Gallery at the National Museum of India, New Delhi. They have both collaborated on numerous books on Indian art and culture.

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