Cleveland Museum of Art
Maru Ragini, from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies)
- Date
- 1650–80
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Amber or Southwestern India, Deccan
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
A Rajput warrior holding a spear, with piercing dagger ( katar ) and sword attached to his belt, stands alone with his camel in a landscape. They have arrived at the banks of a stream, verdant in contrast to the intense hot yellow of the ground behind them. The musical mode associated with this painting is based on folk melodies of Rajasthan, where local stories feature a hero with a camel mount. The warrior’s belt is called a kamarband in Persian and is the origin of the English cummerbund.
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