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Illustration of an Indian woman holding a flower
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PAHARI STYLE, GULER

रागिनी खंबावती Khambavati Ragini (The musical mode Khambavati)

circa 1760

RCIN 925221

Khambavati is a slow-to-medium tempo, early-evening raga associated with autumn and cool, post-monsoon weather. The painter portrays khambavati as a beautiful young woman performing a solitary fire ritual to the Hindu god Brahma, ‘the Creator’.

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