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PAHARI STYLE, GULER
रागिनी खंबावती Khambavati Ragini (The musical mode Khambavati)
c. 1760RCIN 925221
Ragamala paintings are pictorial representations of ragas (musical modes associated with particular seasons and different times of day). Khambavati is a slow-to-medium tempo, early-evening raga associated with autumn and cool, postmonsoon weather. The painter portrays khambavati as a beautiful young woman performing a solitary fire ritual to Brahma (the creator god).