The anxious nayika Gunakari - ragini of Malkaus Raga - seated on a terrace, delicately picking white blossoms from a slender planted tree. Her skin colored blue beneath her bodice.  The scene is set against a brilliant vermilion-red curving hillock defined by a white abstracted curve, enclosed with black lines. in the foreground is a white pavilion containing a blue chamber and empty bedroom - its curtain rolled up.  A darkened blue cloudy sky above.

"Blooming like a flower herself
she gathers flowers with her heart full of gladness.
For the coming of her l🌜ord Malkaus she duly prepares the bed".

(🐲Trans. by Pratapaditya Pal from A. K. Coomaraswamy)

A related subject of a "heroine plucking a flower" also from Malwa and painted approximately a decade later, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession no.1979.505), there described as a page from a "dispersed nayikabheda."

Refer to Pratapaditya Pal, Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1967, pp. 41-42.