Observe the image and answer the following question.
The painting in the image is a folio of the Chunar Ragamala set of the Bundi School. Which Ragamala subject is portrayed in it?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Dipak
Option (1) Khambavati — Incorrect. Ragini Khambavati is another surviving folio of the Chunar set, not this night scene with lamps.
Option (2) Bhairavi — Incorrect. Ragini Bhairavi is also among the few surviving Chunar folios, but it is not the painting shown.
Option (3) Dipak — Correct. The painting is Raga Dipak. He sits with his beloved at night in a chamber lit by four lamps, under a sky full of stars.
Option (4) Malashri — Incorrect. Ragini Malashri is one more folio of the Chunar set, not the one shown here.
NCERT (2026-27): “Bundi School of Painting …Amongst the surviving few folios of the Chunar set are Raginis Khambavati, Bilaval, Malashri, Bhairavi, Patmanjari and few others. Raga Dipak is portrayed in a night setting, seated with his beloved in a chamber that is warmly illuminated by flames from the four lamps; two lamp holders are innovatively shaped like ornate human figures. The sky is glittering with innumerable stars and the moon is turning yellow, indicating that it is not newly risen but that the night has progressed and many hours have passed by for the couple in each other’s company.”
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