Keywords: Indian - Ragini Saindhavi - Walters W905.jpg The Sanskrit text at the top describes the dancing woman in the doorway who personifies the musical mode ragini called Saindhavi Wearing bangles on both hands and making viewers completely intoxicated here comes the smart and happy girl Saindhavi with movements as graceful as an elephant's Clad in a red blouse skilled in lovemaking and adorned with breasts like waterpots and lotus-petal eyes more beautiful than an antelope's this is Saindhavi Ragini ca 1700 pigments paper cm 29 2 18 4 accession number W 905 19519 John and Berthe Ford Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2002 place of origin Golconda in present-day Andhra Pradesh India Walters Art Museum license 2D Paintings of India in the Walters Art Museum Golconda monarchs Paintings of women of Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh in the 1700s 1700s paintings from India Paintings from Andhra Pradesh |