Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s3.32
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s3.32
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In later literature these females are sometimes styled as *Alasa Kanyā* or *Alasā* whose special feature was the stretching of youthful limbs specially by throwing the arms above the head in a languid manner. This was an amorous pose of an indolent woman filled with intoxication of love and we find these poses on a couple of pillars in Mathura art (e. g. 196 & 977). A famous religious figure in Mathura art is that of the mother goddess *Śrī-Lakshmī* standing on a *Pūrṇaghaṭa* in the attitude of giving milk. This scene is also repeated on a railing pillar No. 286.