Alice Heeramaneck, Masterpieces of Indian Painting, Verona, 1984 pl. 72, p.78

Good and stable overall condition as viewed. An area of loss to paper on the middle left of the red folio border and scattered abrasions to the margins of the folio border. A light stain to the green grass on lower right and to the rock work on lower middle left. Light abrasions to yellow band on top clearly visible in catalog illustration. This lot is exhibited in a temporary frame.
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A slender solitary nayika dressed in a gold floral-patterned payjama and brief choli (bodice), plucking her vina with one hand, charms three male deer and two does in a green forest clearing. Amid a spray of mauve stylized rocky outcroppings capped with blossoming trees.  Hare and deer listen quietly as a pair of birds fly above in a cloudy blue sky.  

Todi Ragini: perhaps a metaphor for loneliness:

“Divided from her darling
and most unhappy in love
like a nun renouncing the world,
Todi abides in the grove and
charms the hearts of the does”.

(Traꦜns. by Pratapaditya Pal from A.K. Coomaraswamy)

Refer to Klaus Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, 1973 pp. 60-61, C 18 and Pratapaditya Pal, Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, cover photo and p.72, cat 73.