The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c9.164.4

v1.c9.164.4

She has no hymation or scarf over her body clothes. Her feet are covered by the skirt of the *sāḍi*. A necklace of five rows adorns her breast, and thick heavy jewels are pendant from her ears. The face is mutilated. Before her stands sideways a nude boy with his right hand resting on the thigh of the central figure. Before the male attendant there is also a boy, standing in a dancing attitude with the right hand uplifted. The heads of the boys are broken. Before the principal figure, there is an Indian *loṭā* or flagon, apparently serving the purposes of a bottle. On the reverse there are four figures, two male and two female, standing under an umbrageous grove whose foliage is made up of long, lanceolate, pinnate leaflets hanging in masses, and relieved with globular tufts (*capitulums*) formed of small flowers. The leaves can be likened to the young shoots of the *Jonesia aśoka*, but the flowers are more like those of the *Nauclea kadamba* than of former. The first figure to the right is a female, dressed in a *ghāgrā* much in the style of the female attandant already noticed, but having a narrow long *cādar* thrown across the body. Her feet are encased in shoes, and there are thick heavy rings round her ankles. Her left hand holds the hem of her mantle, and the right is in the grasp of a youth who stands beside her in an amatory mood, with crossed legs, resting his left hand on her shoulders.