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Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala Series

c. 1750–75

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Bundi or Uniara, 18th century

Medium
Gum tempera and gold on paper
Measurements
Image: 21.4 x 13 cm (8 7/16 x 5 1/8 in.); Border: 28.7 x 22.3 cm (11 5/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski 2012.297
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In the ragamala system, male ragas are "married" to female raginis. Todi Ragini is a "wife" of Hindola Raga, the name of a scene that features the male lover or lovers on a swing. Both Todi and Hindola are meant to explore the moods of springtime. Ragamala verses describe Todi as a woman with sharp eyes and a slim "extremely tender body, radiant as the frost" and smeared with saffron and camphor from Kashmir. She is said to "push back a deer from the edge of a forest glade."
A vertically oriented, stylized gum tempera and gold painting depicts two women and a horned deer under a weeping tree. On our left, a woman in a green dress carries a stringed instrument. In the center, a black and white deer looks up toward a woman in an orange gown on our right, who raises her hand into the branches against a pale green background. A dark floral border and red frame enclose the scene.

Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala Series

c. 1750–75

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Bundi or Uniara, 18th century

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