The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover: Utka Nayika

The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover: Utka Nayika

Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Guler

Asavari ragini(?)

anonymous

Dame op rots

anonymous

Gaudi Ragini, page from a Ragamala series

India, Rajasthan, possibly Raghugarh school, late 18th Century

The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover (Utka Nayika)

Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Kangra

Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana in the forest

Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Kangra, Court of Aniruddh Chand (reigned 1823–1833)

A Heroine Waiting for Her Paramour: Vasakasajja Nayika, from a Nurpur Rasikapriya

Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Nurpur

Layla and Majnun in the wilderness with animals, from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Sanwalah

Saranga malhare ragini

anonymous

Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala Series

Eastern India, Bengal, Murshidabad, 18th century

Virhini Nayika, Love-Torn Heroine

India, Pahari Hills, Kangra school, late 18th-early 19th Century

Gaudi Ragini

India, Rajasthan, probably Jaipur, 18th century