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| Keywords: Indian - Ragini Bhairavi - Walters W875.jpg Melodic musical themes known as modes raga were important subjects in sets of miniatures produced for the regional courts of India in the 17th-19th centuries The name of one raga is Bhairava- a god who is also the lord of music Bhairavi spouse of Bhairava gives her name to a raga -variation ragini In art she personifies the ragini She appears here worshiping at a shrine holding a linga the emblem of the great god Shiva The inscription at top says The fair and pure Bhairavi worships Shiva with songs accompanied by cymbals in a crystal shrine beside a lake A sculpture of Shiva's bull his means of transportation sits outside the shrine between 1600 1625 pigments paper cm 22 07 18 73 accession number W 875 22942 John and Berthe Ford Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2001 Translation The fair and pure Bhairavi worships Shiva with songs accompanied by cymbals in a crystal shrine beside a lake place of origin north India Walters Art Museum license 2D Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Mughal miniatures in the Walters Art Museum Ragamala People with animals in art of India | ||||
