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101 The lover at daybreak leaves his mistress who lies sleeping in her bed.
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: Betel leaves remain strewn about the courtyard and bedchamber,
LALITA RAGINI symbols of passed lovemaking. He clutches two garlands, tokens of a
Udaipur, circa 1675 passionate night, as he walks away. Meanwhile, her sakhi (confidante)
Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper; two lines of devanagari entreats him to stay, knowing the effect his absence will have.
in the yellow textfield
Image: 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (21 x 18.4 cm); The composition is derived from the Lalita of the Chawand Ragamala
Folio: 10 1/8 x 8 3/8 in. (25.7 x 21.3 cm) of 1605 (see Dallapiccola, Ragamala Miniaturen, Wiesbaden, 1975, p.
$8,000 - 12,000 112). However, the artist here has played with perspective, giving the,
previously horizontal, bedchamber greater dimensionality.
This painting is from a dispersed Ragamala series, once in the great
collection of Sangram Singh of Jaipur. It illustrates Lalita Ragini, a morning Provenance
melody, whose mood is of the pain of love-in-separation (vipralambha). Collection of Sangram Singh, Jaipur
Private European Collection, acquired between 1968-72

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