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Virahotkanthita Nayika Yearning for her Lover
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On a terrace and under a moonlit sky with two flying cranes is a Virahotkanthita Nayika (“One Distressed by Separation”), a heroine who waits and yearns for her lover to return from a long journey. She dramatically reclines across a cluster of large pillows. Her head rests back to face her female attendant who is slightly bent over her. The heroine is bare-chested and wears a green skirt as well as elaborate jewelry. She holds in her right hand the mouthpiece of a hookah. Rajput Style.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of John Kenneth Galbraith
Title: Virahotkanthita Nayika Yearning for her Lover
Description:
On a terrace and under a moonlit sky with two flying cranes is a Virahotkanthita Nayika (“One Distressed by Separation”), a heroine who waits and yearns for her lover to return from a long journey.
She dramatically reclines across a cluster of large pillows.
Her head rests back to face her female attendant who is slightly bent over her.
The heroine is bare-chested and wears a green skirt as well as elaborate jewelry.
She holds in her right hand the mouthpiece of a hookah.
Rajput Style.
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