Observe the image and answer the following question.
The painting in the image is a Kangra folio from a Baramasa set, which shows the mode of love suited to each month of the year. Which month does it depict?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Jyestha
This Kangra painting of 1800 shows a couple in the month of Jyestha. Keshav Das describes Jyeshtha in the Kavipriya as the hot month, falling in May and June.
NCERT (2026-27): “Kangra School …The Baramasa paintings, consisting of 12 folios, illustrating the modes of love or courtship appropriate to each month of the year had become a popular theme in the hills during the nineteenth century. An account of Baramasa is given by Keshav Das in the tenth chapter of Kavipriya. He, thus, describes the hot month of Jyeshtha, which falls in the months of May and June. The painter takes utmost delight in depicting all analogues as described by the poet.”
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