The rented house in downtown Mandai market in Pune where Mumbiram was born now lay empty and deserted. Mumbiram made his studio in that dilapidated house with a leaky roof. In that place the next chapter of the Mumbiram saga unfolded with great "élan". Soon Mumbiram's atelier saw a steady stream of the folk people of the downtrodden lowest castes and tribes on the one hand and admirers from far corners of the world on the other. Mumbiram's charcoal renderings that show proud beautiful people of India in familiar universal situations were overwhelming favourites with art lovers. They were bought because they were beautiful and full of rasa, not because they were promoted by any galleries or any institutions. The joy of the amateur buyers increased manifold when they came to realize that Mumbiram's muses that appeared in these renderings were from the lowest rungs of the Indian society, the neglected beauties of India. Kusum, Sakhrabai, Drupada, Sonabai are the names that come to mind and are seen in many works. Artlovers could even meet some of them during their visit. Some saw it as the Pygmalion story. The lumpen, ponderous, swarthy creatures who are ignored or pitied on the street appear in Mumbiram's renderings as proud elegant muses of high art. They were destined to adorn walls of well endowed lovely homes. Some saw it as the "Robin Hood" story where the artist took from the "haves" and gave it to the "have-nots". It was legendary; a story line fit for great novels and feature films. One gets a glimpse of that in the short documentary, "Labyrinth of a Renaissance" made by Nadine Grenz. The charcoal renderings, seen below, "Not by bread alone - Kusum making chapattis" and "Kusum brings her Mother Sakhrabai to visit the Artist" are just two of the many masterpieces of this period. A verse from the "Shrimad Bhagavatam" describes how the Pulindya forest women approached the adolescent Krishna surrounded by the Gopis, his cowherd paramours, on the bank of the Yamuna. This verse and this painting appear prominently in "Five Songs of Rasa", Mumbiram's English translation of the Sanskrit verses. That vision of the all-attractive Personality of Krishna aroused amorous passions in the Pulindya forest women.