Cleveland Museum of Art
Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala Series
- Date
- c. 1750–75
- Medium
- Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Bundi or Uniara, 18th century
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
In the ragamala system, male ragas are "married" to female raginis. Todi Ragini is a "wife" of Hindola Raga, the name of a scene that features the male lover or lovers on a swing. Both Todi and Hindola are meant to explore the moods of springtime. Ragamala verses describe Todi as a woman with sharp eyes and a slim "extremely tender body, radiant as the frost" and smeared with saffron and camphor from Kashmir. She is said to "push back a deer from the edge of a forest glade."
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