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105 For a later version, defined as Ramagiri, and explanation of the
AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: iconography of this raga, see Walsdschimdt, Miniatures of Musical
RAMAKALI RAGINI Inspiration, Vol. I, p. 166, fig.41. Coomaraswamy defines the version
Bilaspur, 1730-40 in the Fine Arts Museum, Boston, as Ramakali, see Catalogue of the
Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper; verso two line Indian Collections, Part V, pl. XXXII.
inscription translated: ‘Ramakali Ragini of Shri Raga [...] 5, folio 6’.
Image: 8 5/8 x 5 1/8 in. (22 x 13 cm); Provenance
Folio: 10 1/2 x 7 1/8 in. (26.7 x 18.2 cm) Private Collection, New York
$10,000 - 15,000 Acquired from The Greater India Company, New York, May 1980

Attuned, in orange, with the blossoms of her surroundings, our heroine
attracts the snakes that lean out from their branches either side,
flickering their tongues against her greeting hands. She rests against a
large gold bolster ornamented with pink flowers, a faint yellow applied
beneath her to suggest its radiance from behind her thin gauze
obscuring it and her bare chest.

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