Devi Tripurasundari (Painted Folio, National Museum of Asian Art)

A painted folio in opaque watercolour on paper, showing the goddess Tripurasundari (Lalita Tripurasundari), part of a wider series of paintings depicting the Mahavidya goddesses in the Rajput painting tradition. The image shows her standard devotional iconography, of the kind reproduced across Hindu devotional art and worship in public temple settings; it is not a diagram of the Sri Chakra or any depiction of initiatory Shri Vidya ritual, which this atlas treats as belonging to the restricted tradition and does not describe. The folio was acquired by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art through purchase and partial gift from the collectors Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim, noted scholars and collectors of Indian painting.