Cleveland Museum of Art

Women worshiping a Shiva linga: Devagandhari Ragini of Hindol Raga, from a Ragamala

Date

c. 1700

Medium

gum tempera and gold on paper

Culture

Northern India, Pahari kingdoms

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Removed from any temple setting, the focus of the scene is on the intensity of the women’s devotions to the Hindu god Shiva in his abstract form of a linga. The figure on the right tosses flower petals on the linga and offers incense in a handheld censer. Her taller companion wearing a yellow blouse holds two lotus flowers in her hands cupped in devotion as she bows reverently. The iconography of Devagandhari is consistent in several Ragamala series from Chamba

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