Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.233

c10.233

"Madha-mādh (Madhya-mādi): Madha-mādh is incomparable in beauty; her complexion is gold, her robes are yellow. Her frisky eyes are emphasized with pasted collyrium, a wag-tail seems to dance on a golden lotus. A pearl-top at the end of her nose,-- resembling a dew-drop on a flower of seasame. Her body is radiant with the paste of saffron, she is a damsel from the family of septa-tonic melodies. She adores her lord like cupid and gives him kisses and embraces. The quarter of her abode is the note madhyama (F) the succession of the notes are ma-pa-dha-ni-sa-ri-ga. Suitable for the six seasons beginning with the autumn, she is to be sung in the morning."³