Editing Radha (section)

== Iconography ==
[[File:Lord Krishna and Radha in ISKCON, Pune.jpg|thumb|Radha Krishna idols at [[ISKCON Temple, Pune|Iskcon Temple Pune]]]]
Radha in [[Hinduism]], is revered as the goddess of love. She is mostly depicted along with Krishna or gopis in the land of [[Braj]]. Various art forms based on Radha Krishna are majorly inspired by ''[[Gita Govinda]]'' and ''Rasikapriya''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mukherjee |first=Sreecheta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lkM4DwAAQBAJ&dq=Radha+Krishna+temples&pg=PA26 |title=Temples of Bengal |date=2012-12-25 |publisher=Aesthetics Media Services |isbn= |edition=2nd |location=india |pages=34–35 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Coomaraswamy |first=Ananda K. |date=1930 |title=Two Leaves from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of the Rasikapriyā |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1522765 |journal=Metropolitan Museum Studies |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=14–21 |doi=10.2307/1522765 |jstor=1522765 |issn=1556-8725|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In [[Rajput painting]]s, Radha represents an ideal of beauty, wearing the traditional [[sari]] decorated extensively with patterns and ornamented in jewelry with lighter skin tone and emphasized facial features.<ref name=":11">{{Cite journal |last=Lavanya |first=B. |date=2019 |title=Women in Pahari Miniature Painting |url=http://scientificresearchjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Social-Science-6_A-681-686-Full-Paper.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225070358/http://scientificresearchjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Social-Science-6_A-681-686-Full-Paper.pdf |archive-date=2021-02-25 |url-status=live |journal=International Journal of Applied Social Science |volume=6 |pages=}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite journal |last=Coomaraswamy |first=A. K. |date=1926 |title=Rājput Paintings |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4169988 |journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts |volume=24 |issue=142 |pages=23–26 |jstor=4169988 |issn=0899-0336}}</ref> In Kishangarh paintings, Radha is represented as beautifully dressed woman in ''[[ghagra choli]]'' with pearl jewelry and a dark diaphanous veil over her head. The famous [[Bani Thani]] portrait by artist [[Nihâl Chand]] was inspired by Radha's physical features which includes sharp eyebrows, lotus-like elongated eyes, thin lips and a pointed nose and chin.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ghosh |first=Soma |date=2022 |title=The Art of Shringara: Revisiting the Kishangarh School of Rajasthani Painting |url=https://chitrolekha.com/ns/v6n1/v6n100.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020182148/https://chitrolekha.com/ns/v6n1/v6n100.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-20 |url-status=live |journal=The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design |volume=6 |issue=1|doi=10.21659/cjad.61.v6n100 |s2cid=250976234 }}</ref> 
[[File:Krishna-radha ardhanari.jpg|thumb|Radha Krishna [[ardhanarishvara]] form]]
In religious art forms, Radha also appears as ''[[Ardhanari]]'' with Krishna, that is an iconography where half of the image is Radha and the other half is Krishna forming the combined masculine and feminine form of [[Ardhanarishvara]].{{sfn|Pradhan|2008|pp=207–213}}

In Radha Krishna temples, Radha stands on the left of Krishna, with a garland in her hand.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mukherjee |first=Sreecheta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lkM4DwAAQBAJ&dq=Radha+Krishna+temples&pg=PA26 |title=Temples of Bengal |date=2012-12-25 |publisher=Aesthetics Media Services |pages=74–75 |language=en}}</ref> She is often dressed in traditional sari or ''ghagra-choli'' along with a veil. Her jewelry from top to bottom is either made of metals, pearls or flowers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mohan |first=Urmila |date=2018 |title=Clothing as devotion in Contemporary Hinduism |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/rpra/rpra-overview.xml |journal=Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Art|volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=1–82 |doi=10.1163/24688878-12340006 |s2cid=202530099 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

The [[Sanskrit]] scripture ''[[Brahma Vaivarta Purana]]'' describes Radha as the beautiful and youthful goddess having the molten golden complexion and wearing the garlands of gems and flowers.<ref name="Shanti Lal Nagar">{{Cite book |last=Shanti Lal Nagar |url=http://archive.org/details/brahma-vaivarta-purana-all-four-kandas-english-translation |title=Brahma Vaivarta Purana: English Translation: All Four Kandas |date=2003-01-01}}</ref>