Bhairava Raga. Siva stands by starlight by a tall lingam shrine holding a trident and ‘damaru;’ the Ganges issues from his hair-knot and flows into the foreground; there is a distant landscape with hillocks and bushes.
Kedara Ragini. An ascetic sits on a tiger-skin outside his dwelling by moonlight while a female disciple plays the ‘vina’ and his dog and a visiting female ascetic sleep. A jackfruit tree is on the left and a town is in the distance on the right. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.XLVI, fig.C.
Nata Ragini. A warrior, dressed in green and mounted on a white horse, fights with a foot-soldier, having slain another soldier who lies in the foreground. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.XLIV, fig.2.
Dhanasri Ragini. A lady writing a letter to her absent lover, sits on a canopied verandah before a fountain pool with fish. Her confidante approaches up steps in the foreground. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.LVIII, fig.B.
Kakubha Ragini. A lady sits on a rocky hillock playing the ‘vina’ to the birds gathered round her. Four peacocks perch in a tree nearby and three cranes strut at her feet. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.LXVII, fig.A; Goetz (1949), fig.2.
Sri Raga. A prince with four girls in attendance, sits beneath a canopy on a garden terrace listening to a yogini with a ‘vina’ and a horse-headed ‘kinnara’ who is playing cymbals. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.LIII, fig.A.
Gauri Ragini. A lady, looking out of the picture to the left, stands on a garden terrace holding two sprays of flowers. Identified in Persian as ‘Bhairava Raga’ on a label which has been attached, apparently in error, to the reverse of the border: ‘rag-i avval bhairon vaqt-i sih 3 kahari(?).’
Sugrai Ragini. Two lovers walk arm in arm through a garden, towards a bed which is being prepared in a pavilion by a maid. The man holds a garland and the lady indicates the bed with her hand. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.LXXX, fig.B. Note: This subject in Rajasthani sets would be iden...
Devgandhar Ragini. An aged male ascetic sits on a tiger-skin under a banyan tree outside a cave, fanned by a disciple with a ‘morchal.’ A second disciple reads in the foregound and three women with a child stand in veneration on the right. In the distance is a town with a church.
Gormalar Ragini. A girl dressed in a leaf skirt is sitting on a lotus pad on an island in a lotus pond, holding a bow and arrow. There is a town in the distance and rain is falling from the clouds above. Identified in Persian as ‘Bhairavi Ragini’ on a label which has been attached, apparently...