The Lady’s Vigil

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This painting is from the Ashta-Nayika series of Kangra paintings which are based on classification of women as described in classical literature of India.
The Utka Nayika is she, who yearns to meet her lover and is anxious as he has not arrived on time. In this painting Nayika is shown standing under a tree . She has adorned the trunk of the tree with garlands of jasmine. The heroine who is like the dryad of some enchanted forest eagerly awaits the arrival of her lover.