Kedar Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes), ca. 1690–95, India (Bikaner, Rajasthan), Opaque watercolor and ink on paper, Image: 6 in. × 4 11/16 in. (15.2 × 11.9 cm), Paintings, Ruknuddin (active late 17th century), The artist Ruknuddin has combined creatively a number of ragamala texts to make this evocative masterpiece. Following artistic precedent and the texts, he shows an ascetic “in penance, adorned, gray [with ashes]” listening to a disciple, who is described as “a young man beauteous in every limb,” playing the rudra vina
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