Ragini Bhairavi, 1600-1625. 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 worshipping at a shrine containing a linga, the phallic 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 Nandi, the bull ridden by Shiva, sits outside the shrine.