Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paperexpand_more
Gift of funds from Jane Emisonexpand_more 2010.6.1
A female devotee known as the Bhairavi Ragini worships a Shiva linga in a temple with two lady assistants. Dressed in the yellow robes of a holy woman, she watches her attendants offer milk and garlands to the god's aniconic form. Shiva's vehicle, a bull, sits below the temple and beside a silver lake. Ragamalas are musical modes personified by women, a widespread subject in illustrated manuscripts of regional Indian courts.
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