拍品專文
This scene is a symbolic representation of a musical melody. In Hindustani classical music, there are no set compositions but frameworks, called ragas, on which musicians build each recital. Our painting represents the musical mode khambavati ragini, one of the wives of Malkos, the raga associated with autumn and cool, post-Monsoon weather. The painter portrays khambavati as a beautiful young woman performing a solitary fire ritual to the four-headed god Brahma, the creator, as a visual expression of the rasa.