Page from a Ragamala Series: Bhairavi Ragini (Primary Title)
Unidentified (Artist)
Meant to be played in the morning, Bhairavi Ragini is usually imagined as a woman worshipping at a Shiva temple as the sun rises, anticipating the next time she will meet her lover. Shown kneeling similarly to the lady in the previous painting, she places flowers on the deity’s abstracted sculptural representation, her act of devotion observed by both her maidservant and Shiva’s bull, Nandi. Though executed with considerably more detail than the painting on the left, the two were produced around the same time and place. This page probably comes from the same ragamala set as the picture of Megha Raga near the gallery’s opposite corner.
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