Varari Ragini

This painting is from a ragamala or 'garland of ragas' - paintings which illustrate musical modes (ragas) through human activities. This one is identified in the inscriptions as Varari ragini, and shows the usual iconography for this ragini (female raga) of a lady fanning a prince with a chauri (yak-tail fly-whisk).

Kind

artefact

Date

1795–1804 CE