Ascetics making music, illustrating the musical mode Kedara Raga

Gouache on paper.

The musical mode Kedara is visualised as two yogis or ascetics making music within a small pavilion. Seated on a leopard skin, a traditional seat of yogis who have mastered the temptations of the sensual world, the vina player improvises a raga, gazing with concentration at his companion who beats the tala or rhythmic cycle with cymbals.

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