"..shri raga ri ragini gavadi .. 5 ..."

The inscription suggests this is Gaudi Ragini, but is more likely a variant of Todi Ragini: a lonely nayika playing her vina to four deer in the wilderness.  A solitary female ascetic, naked from the waist up, holding her stringed vina as two male and two female deer watch.  She is a renunciate, a nimbate yogini who was perhaps once a princess.  She gazes down visualizing the small ashꦰ-smeared head and shoulders of a long-haired apparition looking up at her. A row of golden lamps lie below her.  Set within the grotto of a hillside with mauv🐼e rocky outcroppings, on a verdigris ground with trees beyond. 

This folio appears to be from a thikana in Rajasthan or Central India.  The series from which it originates (see previous lot) seems stylistically closest to Central India, perhaps in Bundelkhand.  For another folio likely from the same series in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston see P. Pal, Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1967, 🔯cat. 66, pl. XXIX pp. 64-65, where the series described as from possibly from Bundi (Uniara).