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BUNDI, RAJASTHAN, NORTH WEST INDIA, CIRCA 1740-60 Opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, depicting ladies worshipping a Shiva lingam in the forest, lacking its borders Painting 7 ? x 4 3/8in. (19 x 11cm.)
A lady worshipping at a Shiva lingam is the typical Rajasthani iconography for Bhairavi ragini, the first wife of Bhairava raga. Bhairava, another name for Shiva, is the fierce manifestation of the deity. Here the ragini is depicted making offerings at a shrine of Shiva accompanied by two ladies at a riverside. A diminutive Nandi bull below looks up at the lingam. For a comparable ragamala illustration from Amber, dating circa 1709, which depicts a lady worshipping at an Shiva lingam accompanied by a female attendant, see Ebeling, 1973, p.265, no.276.