AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: VIHAGA RAGAPUTRA SON OF SRI RAGA

A lord, beautifully attired and nimbated stands in a forest clearing leaning on a long crook.  He wears a long gold floral robe and a distinctive white and gold headgear.  He gestures to his beloved as she leans a long-neck stringed vina over her shoulder.  The branches of a slender tree enclose them.  A handmaiden offers a flask and holds a chowrie.

Inscribed in black ink Devanagari script in the red border above 

"..raga ragaputra vihaga da raga.. 4"

The inscription describes the subject as "Vihaga Ragaputra".  Ebeling describes a related subject as Mevada Putra "a prince in beautiful garments, a flower crown and a sword", listening to the music of a vina. Refer to Klaus Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, 1973 cat 141, p 224.

For another folio from the same series in the Museum of Replica Handbags s Boston see P. Pal, Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of Replica Handbags s Boston, 1967  cat. 66, pl. XXIX pp. 64-65. The series described there as possibly from Bundi (at Uniara?). 

Stylistically the series' provenance appears closest to Central India.