Indian Sculpture c8.64

c8.64

Yakṣī on Nara-vāhana; the female figure and the Maithuna couple above are connected as motif as well as composition. The figure of the Yakṣī rests the weight of her body on her left leg, and keeps it balanced by a strong bent to the right. The round amplitude of the modelling of her limbs, the volume of scarf and anklets, are reminiscent of the massive-ness of the Dīdargañj Yakṣī. The liveliness (face of figures, arm of man on balcony) of the modelling, too, is inherited from that side. Its melting quality, however, and the flowing curve of compositional movement have their antecedents in the type of the Sudarśanā relief. The Yakṣī holds a spray of mangoes in her right hand, and raises a bowl into which the man lowers a tumbler. All the figures appear given up to the pleasure of the moment of their contact.