Observe the image and answer the following question.
The Bundi painting in the image belongs to a popular theme of the Bundi School. What does this theme describe?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → The twelve months of the year
The painting is Ashwin, a folio from a Bundi Baramasa set.
Option (1) The moods of the musical ragas and raginis — Incorrect. This is the Ragamala theme, such as the Bundi Raga Dipak; this painting shows a month, not a raga.
Option (2) The twelve months of the year — Correct. Baramasa is an atmospheric description of the 12 months by Keshav Das.
Option (3) The love of Radha and Krishna in the Gita Govinda — Incorrect. The Gita Govinda is Jayadeva’s Sanskrit poem on Radha and Krishna, not a cycle of months.
Option (4) The seven hundred verses of the Bihari Satsai — Incorrect. The Satsai of Bihari Lal was painted largely at Mewar, not the theme of this folio.
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Baramasa is a popular theme of Bundi paintings. As mentioned earlier, it is an atmospheric description of the 12 months by Keshav Das that is part of the tenth chapter of Kavipriya written for Rai Parbin, a celebrated courtesan of Orchha.”
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