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    "localId": "22942",
    "label": "Ragini Bhairavi",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.875"
}

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    "id": "22942",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.875",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ragini Bhairavi",
    "description": "Melodic musical themes known as modes (\"raga\") were important subjects in sets of miniatures produced for the regional courts of India in the 17th-19th centuries. The name of one \"raga\" is Bhairava- a god who is also the lord of music. Bhairavi (spouse of Bhairava) gives her name to a \"raga\"-variation (\"ragini\"). In art, she personifies the \"ragini.\" She appears here worshiping at a shrine holding a \"linga,\" the emblem of the great god Shiva. The inscription at top says, \"The fair and pure Bhairavi worships Shiva with songs accompanied by cymbals in a crystal shrine beside a lake.\" A sculpture of Shiva's bull, his means of transportation, sits outside the shrine.",
    "provenance": "John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2001, by gift.",
    "date": "1600-1625",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.875",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Manuscripts & Rare Books",
        "miniatures (paintings)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.1,
            "height": 18.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "8 11/16 x 7 3/8 in. (22.07 x 18.73 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Sub-imperial Mughal",
    "inscriptions": "[Translation] The fair and pure Bhairavi worships Shiva with songs accompanied by cymbals in a crystal shrine beside a lake.",
    "med": "pigments on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "INT"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2071"
    ]
}

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