Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.604
Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.604
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**The bride.** The shy bride (*mugdhā*, *navoḍhā*, or *navala bālā*) is led by the messenger (*dūtikā*) across the starlit courtyard to the door of her lover’s house, where a servant with torch and scent-spray (*attar-dān*) awaits her. The *dūtikā* supports and embraces the timid ‘babe’, and there shines here clearly the same tenderness which characterizes the Vaiṣṇava erotic poetry. The treatment of the cast shadow suggests Mughal influence.