Kakubha ragini

Kakubha Ragini

Illustration from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Dame op rots

Ragini Gaund, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

Kakubha ragini: a Forlorn Lady walking amongst Peacocks

Ragini Kakubha, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

The origin of music from a fabulous bird of India which had seven holes in its beak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night

Prince Riding in Chariot Drawn by Goats

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventh Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Ragamala painting

Prince Visiting an Ascetic during a Hunt

Ragini Bhairavi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

A Woman Plucks Leaves While Awaiting Her Lover: Gunakali Ragini of Malkos, from the “Chawand Ragamala”

The merchant hears of his wife’s unfaithfulness (above); the unfaithful wife performs penance by plucking her hair (below), from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): First Night

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Ragini Gunakali, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

Gaudi Ragini

Malavagaudi Ragini, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

Desakshari-ragini

The Brahman’s wife who killed a peacock and ate its gallbladder on the physician’s advice, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Nineteenth Night

Mehenoen neffa

Pancham Raga

Gunakari Ragini, vrouw zittend in een hof van een paleis