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# 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

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-49-1959](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-49-1959) · Pramāṇa
