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The estranged nayika

  • Description

    Composed by the court poet Keshav Das in 1591, the Rasikapriya is a Hindi poetical treatise on the classification of idealised types of male and female lovers (nayakas and nayikas) and their emotions and interactions. The princely nayaka figure is often shown blue-skinned like the amorous god Krishna. Here the sakhi, the companion and confidante of the nayika, acts as a go-between and brings the wayward nayaka before his lady’s chamber. She evidently tells him of the nayika’s suffering in separation from him and her pain at his infidelities. The wrathful nayika sits brooding within her palace chamber. As in other pages from this series, a flag-bearing makara (crocodile) finial, emblematic of the love-god Kama, projects from the palace wall, and a monkey looks on from a ledge above.

  • Details

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    Series
    The Rasikapriya of Keshav Das
    Associated place
    Asia › India › central India › Madhya Pradesh › Malwa (place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1640
    Material and technique
    gouache on paper
    Dimensions
    20.7 x 18.1 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted
    Object type index
    communications equipment › manuscript,
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by the Simon Digby Memorial Charity, 2012.
    Accession no.
    EA2012.200

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    • currently in research collection

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