Studies in Indian Art c12.s8.29

c12.s8.29

Nanda is holding the goblet between the fingers of his right hand and offering it to the lady. Sundarī is wearing a big garland round her neck and shoulders and grasping it with the left hand. Similar conspicuous garlands occur in other scenes at Mathura and are suggestive of special amorous moods. In the background are two female attendants, one of whom a surāhārī is bearing the wine-jar (surā-bhāṇḍa) in her left hand.