Madhumadhavai Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes), ca. 1640–50, India (Rajasthan, Marwar), Ink and opaque watercolor on paper, 10 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (26.7 x 20 cm), Paintings, The text of this Ragini tells of peacocks that cry at the threat of rain—here shown in the roiling black horizon and blue lines. Thinking that the peacock’s cry comes from hunger, a lady offers food. The audience would have also understood allusions to Nayikabheda poetry in which the abhisarika nayika (a heroine) travels at night in a storm to meet her lover
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