Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v2.c8.s9.24

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To the right of the pavilion in which the rājā and rānī are sitting, there is a pillared apartment in which a princess royal is seen leaning against a column. She is apparently Māyā, whose beauty the artist wanted to delineate with the free play of his imagination, without the restrictions imposed by the incidents of the story. Here she is seen attended by a female servant, dressed in a long garment covering her bust in the style of a hermit's robe. The features of this attendant are partly obliterated and look rather coarse now, the mouth being contorted. The other figure in the apartment represents a dwarfish Brāhman, holding a rosary and looking at the face of the Princess with an air of amazement.