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May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016
Women Worshipping a Shiva Linga: Devagandhari Ragini of Hindol, from a Chamba Ragamala
Women Worshipping a Shiva Linga: Devagandhari Ragini of Hindol, from a Chamba Ragamala
c. 1700
Gum tempera and gold on paper
Miniature: 21 x 18.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.87
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The iconography of Devagandhari is consistent in several Ragamala series from Chamba
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Removed from any temple setting, the focus of the scene is on the intensity of the women’s devotions to the Hindu god Shiva in his abstract form of a linga. The figure on the right tosses flower petals on the linga and offers incense in a handheld censer. Her taller companion wearing a yellow blouse holds two lotus flowers in her hands cupped in devotion as she bows reverently.
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