This watercolor on paper Ragamala painting by Kailash Raj presents the Ragini Madhumadhavi (the wife of Raga Megha), a Ragini of blissful relief after a long separation from the beloved. Ragini Madhumadhavi in the painting is draped in traditional Rajasthani attire- a yellow lehenga, deep red translucent odhni tucked pleasingly to her lehenga, and a pink choli (blouse).
She is adorned with various exquisite ornaments of pearls and precious gemstones. An eighteenth-century painting from Rajasthan in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has these lines inscribed at the back of a folio with Ragini Madhumadhavi- “Madhu Madhavi is a treasury of beauty among women, she wears a green robe over all her body, Many kinds of jewels adorn her limbs, whom to behold, a myriad of sages pale and faint.”
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