Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s3.27

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Another motif in which women took great interest was their pastime with the parrots, the subject described elsewhere as Suka-sārikā. It was both a domestic and garden sport. On pillar No. 99 are carved a male and a female figure in which the female is feeding a parrot with a fruit held in her left hand. Pillar fragment No. 115 is carved with the torso of the female figure on whose right shoulder is a parrot. Obviously she was engaged in feeding the bird with her left hand now lost. A female figure standing on the back of a dwarf is holding a fruit near her right ear and coaxing a parrot (Pillar No. 258). A scene depicted on pillar No. 1595 also. From the point of art best pillar is from Bhūteśvara railing in which the warm woman is holding a cage in her suspended right hand, and has a parrot on her left shoulder. On a pillar from Kankali Tila the parrot is seated on the girdle of a dancing young woman and is nibbling at the knot in order to unbind it. [Fig. 135].