# Women worshiping a Shiva linga: Devagandhari Ragini of Hindol Raga, from a Ragamala

- Date: c. 1700
- Medium: gum tempera and gold on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Overall: 21 x 18.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.); Painting: 19.7 x 17 cm (7 3/4 x 6 11/16 in.)
- Culture: Northern India, Pahari kingdoms
- Credit line: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.87)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2018.87/2018.87_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Removed from any temple setting, the focus of the scene is on the intensity of the women’s devotions to the Hindu god Shiva in his abstract form of a linga. The figure on the right tosses flower petals on the linga and offers incense in a handheld censer. Her taller companion wearing a yellow blouse holds two lotus flowers in her hands cupped in devotion as she bows reverently.