Saranga malhare ragini

Ascetic Princess with Snakes in a Wilderness: Asavari Ragini, from a Ragamala

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bikaner

Asavari ragini

anonymous

Dame op rots

anonymous

Asavari ragini(?)

anonymous

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

Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Chamba

Kedar ragini

anonymous

The origin of music from a fabulous bird of India which had seven holes in its beak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Unknown Artist

Raja Dilip Singh of Guler on a dais

Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Guler

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

Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Guler

A girl worshipping the rising sun (Surya puja)

Chokha

Rati, the Goddess of Erotic Love, Takes Aim at Krishna, from a Rasikapriya

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Raghogarh