Raga Rama

This Kangra painting of Raga Rama is stylistically quite different. Though the painted form is a usual image of Rama, the Kangra artist has used the imagery for personifying a raga. He has painted him wearing a red turban and red boots instead of wooden padukas, unusual features in Rama's imagery, besides his yellow costume, indicative of the image's royalty. Apart from his usual bow and arrow, the artist has also painted a lady chowri bearer behind him carrying his quiver full of arrows. These are aspects foreign to Rama's imagery and manifest a raga-form linked with his majesty and royal splendor.