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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Deccan (made) Machilipatnam (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Ragamala, depicting a girl as an ascetic performing penances with two attendants outside an ashram. A possible Ragamala illustration to the musical mode devagandhari ragini. Ragamala paintings illustrate poetry dealing with musical forms and help instruct musicians on the mood/notes of a piece.

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Categories	Paintings Hinduism Religion Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project SCRAN
Object type	Painting
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour on paper Gouache Paper Opaque Watercolour Paint Painting Painted
Brief description	Painting, girl with companions outside ashram, possibly devagandhari ragini, opaque watercolour on paper, Eastern Deccan, possibly Machilipatnam, ca. 1780
Physical description	Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Ragamala, depicting a girl as an ascetic performing penances with two attendants outside an ashram. A possible Ragamala illustration to the musical mode devagandhari ragini. Ragamala paintings illustrate poetry dealing with musical forms and help instruct musicians on the mood/notes of a piece.
Content description	A girl as an ascetic performing penances with two attendants outside an ashram.
Style	Deccan
Credit line	Given by Major R.G. Gayer-Anderson Pasha and Colonel T.G.Gayer-Anderson, C.M.G., D.S.O.
Production	Masulipatnam (?)
Subjects depicted	Woman Ascetic Hermitage
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.206-1953

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Record created	November 29, 2002
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O71171/painting-unknown/

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