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Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala Series

c. 1750–75

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

Gum tempera and gold on paper
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.)
Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski 2012.297
Location: Not on view

Description

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."
  • ?-2012
    Dr. Norman Zaworski [1920-2013], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2012-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • “Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2011-2012.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 63, no. 2, 2013, pp. 215–276. Reproduced: fig. 15, p. 226 43676727
  • Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 245): April 28, 2015 - November 2, 2015.
  • {{cite web|title=Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala Series|url=false|author=|year=c. 1750–75|access-date=21 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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