Shiva and Parvati Playing Chaupar: Folio from a Rasamanjari Series, Devidasa of Nurpur, dated 1694–95

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Shiva and Parvati Playing Chaupar: Folio from a Rasamanjari Series, dated 1694–95, India (Basohli, Jammu), Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper, Image: 6 1/2 x 10 7/8 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Devidasa of Nurpur (active ca. 1680–ca. 1720), This painting belongs to a series illustrating the Rasamanjari (Essence of the Experience of Delight), a fifteenth-century Sanskrit love poem by Bhanudatta devoted to the expression and classification of the moods and emotions of the nayaka ( hero-lover) and nayika ( heroine-loved

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