Caption:
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. (16.5 x 27.6 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)