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A Woman Plucks Leaves While Awaiting Her Lover: Gunakali Ragini of Malkos, from the “Chawand Ragamala”

1605

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar, Chawand

Medium
gum tempera and ink on paper
Measurements
20.6 x 18.1 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.136
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She has lit a six-flame lamp at the foot of the tree in her vigil.

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On a terrace outside an open bedchamber, a dark-skinned woman wearing a skirt of peacock feathers plucks leaves from a tree and has filled her basket with flowers. She has made garlands and hung them on the trees, probably in accordance with a vow made in the ardent hope of bringing back her overdue lover. In accordance with the verse, two peacocks stand perched on the roof.
A manuscript page features handwritten script at the top and a painting below. Against a red background, a blue-skinned woman in a peacock-feather skirt reaches toward a tree. Beside her stands a woman with a light skin tone near a white pavilion housing a bed. Two peacocks rest on the roof, while two swans sit along the bottom. The entire scene is enclosed within a wide yellow frame.

A Woman Plucks Leaves While Awaiting Her Lover: Gunakali Ragini of Malkos, from the “Chawand Ragamala”

1605

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar, Chawand

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