India: 'Parakiya Vasakasajja Nayika (She Who Prepares and Waits for Her Lover)'. Miniature painting from the Rasamanjari by Devidas, Bashohli School, 1695. Bashohli (Basoli) is a town in the Kathua district of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is situated on the right bank of the Ravi River at an altitude of around 571 metres. and was founded by Raja Bhupat Pal in 1635. The town is famous for its paintings called Basohli Paintings. They are considered the first school of Pahari paintings, which by the mid-eighteenth century had evolved into the prolific Kangra school of painting.

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