An illustration from a Ragamala series: Raga Kuntala son of Dipaka, India, Bilaspur, circa 1700-20

A courtier feeds pigeons accompanied by a female attendant, the verso inscribed in Devanagari and Takri naming the subject. Compare with a related painting in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated in Klaus Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, 1973, p. 282, no. 334. Also see another depiction of the same subject in the collection of the National Museum, New Delhi, illustrated in M. S. Randhawa, Kangra Ragamala Paintings, 1971, p. p. 77, no. 53.