# Malashri Ragini from a Ragmala series

- Date: 1640
- Medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W: 19.7 x 14.8 cm (7 3/4 x 5 13/16 in)
- Culture: Himalayan peoples
- Credit line: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1924.7/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/f4201a02b14ad185f94f2eac0786b4b0.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A ragamala (garland of ragas, or musical modes) is a unique genre of painting that may be termed "pictorial music". It represents a series of musical modes that correspond to emotional states generally associated with specific times of day or seasons of the year. Musical modes may be male ragas or female raginis, and each is expressed in terms of human love.