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Asavari Ragini, from a Ragamala series
Central Indian
Mughal period
about 1650
Object Place: Raghogarh, Central India
Medium/Technique
Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 29.2 × 23.9 cm (11 1/2 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2913
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
Books and manuscripts
Books and manuscripts
InscriptionsObverse: AKC- "Asavari is longing for her husband, and climbs the Malaya mountains,
All the snakes desert their sandal trees, and writhe and coil their bodies."
All the snakes desert their sandal trees, and writhe and coil their bodies."
ProvenanceBy 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)