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Madhu-Madhavi Ragini
Indian, Rajasthani
mid-18th century
Object Place: Jaipur, Rajasthan, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
24.7 x 16.7 cm (9 3/4 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number15.53
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsHindi inscription (transliteration in paper file) in translation:
"Madhu-madhavi is a treasury of beauty among women, she wears a green robe over all her body,
Many kinds of jewels adorn her limbs, whom to behold, a myriad sages pale and faint.
Coming from the palace, she stands in the garden; heavy black clouds are gathering joyfully,
The sweet, sweet rumbling of thunder is heard, flashes of lighting light up the sky,
Birds are disporting with many notes; the princess, beholding, stands there delighted.
Her body blossoms like a flower for the meeting with her darling, she stands entranced,
Dreaming of her lord's embrace, there is bliss in her heart."
"Madhu-madhavi is a treasury of beauty among women, she wears a green robe over all her body,
Many kinds of jewels adorn her limbs, whom to behold, a myriad sages pale and faint.
Coming from the palace, she stands in the garden; heavy black clouds are gathering joyfully,
The sweet, sweet rumbling of thunder is heard, flashes of lighting light up the sky,
Birds are disporting with many notes; the princess, beholding, stands there delighted.
Her body blossoms like a flower for the meeting with her darling, she stands entranced,
Dreaming of her lord's embrace, there is bliss in her heart."
ProvenanceBy 1913, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1915, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: January 7, 1915)