A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

The Dream of Zuleykha

A Woman Plucks Leaves While Awaiting Her Lover: Gunakali Ragini of Malkos, from the “Chawand Ragamala”

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

The Ramayana (Tales of Rama; The Freer Ramayana), Volume 1

A Man Dips His Hand into a Cauldron as Ladies of the Harem Stand in Amazement: A Page from a Manuscript of Religious History

Woman Addressing a Peacock: Gujari Ragini of Megh, from a Ragamala

The merchant hears of his wife’s unfaithfulness (above); the unfaithful wife performs penance by plucking her hair (below), from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): First Night

Pancham Raga

Madhu Madhavi Ragini

The princess discovers the dead bodies, with heads severed, of her husband and his Brahman friend, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night

Lover's Tryst