Salabhanjika Group https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/124960

#Shilabalika also called as #Madanika or #Salabhanjika or bracketed figures are sculptures of women displaying stylized feminine features. The word Salabhanjika in sanskrit means 'breaking a branch of sala tree’

Sālabhanjika. Mughal, 1750. Ludwig Habighorst Collection.
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Śalabhañjikā, les divinités à l’arbre. Madhya Pradesh or Rajasthan, 10th or 11th century. Musée Guimet.