DEPICTION OF NATURE IN RAJASTHANI GITA GOVINDA

Abstract

Humans have evolved their life in Nature’s Lap and gradually developed the consciousness accordingly. Nature’s beauty and mesmerizing elements have always influenced and attracted humans towards it. This impacted human to an extent that elements of Nature were established as divine powers namely Surya, Chandra, Vayu, Varuna, Indra, and Pruthvi. Poets and Painters have given Nature a new dimension with their imagination, vision, emotions, and glorification. The paintings found in Indian Art have been depicting Nature’s elements in Jainism, Buddhism and Brahmanism majorly. The renaissance of Indian Art has been initiated by Rajput Style Paintings and this is noticeable that they were also influenced by Nature. The painters in Rajasthan were equally attracted by elements of Nature as the poets were. The major poetic-literature created were Sur-Sagar, Ramayana, Bhagwat Puran, Mahabharata, Geet-Govind etc.The poetic-literature Geet-Govind consists of enormous amount of beautiful Nature-depiction in it, with bright colors and figures covered under Rajasthan’s style. Lotus floating in Yamuna River, deep-blue clouds covering the sky, Moon, stars, tree-groves, forest, flowers & plants filled over mountains have been depicted beautifully. In Rajasthan’s Style of paintings, the sky has a noticeable importance. Each artwork has the sky depiction on top area of frame with different climatic conditions like clouds, rain, plain open sky, stars in night etc. which is done on flat form surface.Objectives: Present research paper “Depiction of Nature in Rajasthan’s Geet-Govind” covers a unique angle of study which justifies the Flora & Fauna depictions in miniature. The motive of the paper is to showcase & mark different Natural demographics of Rajasthan in Geet Govind and the climatic influence over it. This paper also aims towards different art styles of Rajput Miniature covering different Bhava and Rasa theory conceptualized in Geet-Govind. Thus, the research paper will be helpful for further research-scholars, this will increase interest in studying the topic and will provide a new vision(dimension) for observing the Geet-Govind.