Kangra Painting of the Gita Govinda are well known for its own unique style. The Kangra Paintings were heavily influenced by Raja Sansar Chand of Kangra. Just like Mughal Paintings in Kangra, a few great masters dominated the scene and it was these masters who evolved the great Kangra Style. Their manner can be seen in separate pictures, but it was the creation of large sets at Kangra, which brings us to the final similarity between Mughal painting under Akbar and Kangra painting under Sansar Chand.

Like Akbar, Sansar Chand sponsored illustrated copies of certain great texts – the tenth and eleventh books of the Bhagavata Purana, the story of Nala and Damayanti, Jayadeva’s great poem, the Gita Govinda, Bihari’s verses, the Sat Sai, and full-scale Ragamala. Marvellous as individual pictures may have been, it is the sustained quality of these five great sets, which gives to Kangra painting its stature.