Women worshiping a Shiva linga: Devagandhari Ragini of Hindol Raga, from a Ragamala

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

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Women worshiping a Shiva linga: Devagandhari Ragini of Hindol Raga, from a Ragamala

c. 1700

Medium: gum tempera and gold on paper
Dimensions: Overall: 21 x 18.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.); Painting: 19.7 x 17 cm (7 3/4 x 6 11/16 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: Indian Art
Origin: Northern India, Pahari kingdoms
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

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Provenance

Public

?–1973

Marjorie Buckle, Hong Kong

1973–2018

Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, Los Angeles

2018–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

Marjorie Buckle, Hong Kong Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, Los Angeles The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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Longing: Painting from the Pahari Kingdoms, 1680 to 1820

Source exhibition text

Longing: Painting from the Pahari Kingdoms, 1680 to 1820. The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (February 6-June 7, 2026) https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/longing-painting-from-the-pahari-kingdoms-of-the-northwest-himalayas/.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Removed from any temple setting, the focus of the scene is on the intensity of the women’s devotions to the Hindu god Shiva in his abstract form of a linga. The figure on the right tosses flower petals on the linga and offers incense in a handheld censer. Her taller companion wearing a yellow blouse holds two lotus flowers in her hands cupped in devotion as she bows reverently.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 3 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.

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