# Raja Mandhata as a musical mode

- Date: ca. 1690
- Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 21.3 × 20.9 cm (8 3/8 × 8 1/4 in)
- Culture: Himalayan peoples
- Credit line: Purchase from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F2017.13.3/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/0e448a9ee2788e173f0731b0522135e6.jpg
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The musical mode Himal is embodied as Raja Mandhata, this manuscript’s patron. Shown splendidly dressed and seated in a grove with two birds perched on his hand, the king is an emblem of refinement.