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Bhairava Raga
Indian
about 1640–50
Object Place: Orchha, India, Central India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Overall 19.5 x 14.5 cm (7 11/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2371
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsReverse: In Devanagari: "Disporting and dallying mid palaces and pleasures, abandoning shame and waxing mellow-- Bhairava moves in a whirlwind, insensate, the Lord of Rati (Kamadeva) roams at large."
Provenance1913, purchased in Delhi, India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given to the MFA by Denman Waldo Ross. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)