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Dhanashri Raagini

wife of Deepak

Dhanashri Raagini, Page from a Raagmala Series · ca. 1790 (or earlier) · Mughal South Asia · Opaque watercolor and gold on paper · Sheet: 10 x 6 15/16 in. (25.4 x 17.6 cm); Image: 8 x 5 1/8 in. (20.3 x 13.0 cm) · Brooklyn Museum · brooklynmuseum.org →

From the treatises

Dhanashri is a girl drawing the portrait of a man, which she shows to the heroine, who recognizes her beloved — as in the story of Aniruddha and Usa, where Citrarekha paints a picture of the former.

tr. A. K. Coomaraswamy, Rajput Painting (1916) · Public domain

All the tale she tells her sakhi, Dhanashri is full of woe; the beauty of her body is wasted all away, she displays the condition of 'love in separation'.

tr. A. K. Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — Part V: Rajput Painting (1926) · Public domain

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