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Woman Feeding Deer: Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala

c. 1610

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Amber

Medium
gum tempera and gold on paper
Measurements
Miniature: 21.6 x 19.4 cm (8 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.167
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Melodies played in the musical mode or key called Todi are performed between 9 AM and 12 PM.

Description

The lone woman wears an orange skirt under a sheer brown sari with gold patterns. She offers some grass to one of four deer that approach her with enthusiasm. She holds a blue and gold vina and faces to the viewer’s left. A poetic verse in Sanskrit describing Ragini Todi is inscribed within the upper yellow border.
A vertically oriented gum tempera and gold painting on fragmented paper depicts a central woman feeding grass to one of four deer. She wears a patterned brown skirt and carries a stringed instrument with blue gourds. Stylized trees, including a fanned banana plant, grow from rolling green hills. Along the bottom, a stream with blooming lotuses flows. A yellow band containing dark script crowns the composition below a pale sky.

Woman Feeding Deer: Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala

c. 1610

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Amber

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