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title: APSARAS DANCE IN THE SKY

subject date: 2004-01-27

caption: INDIA - Dance of Apsaras in the sky of the god Indra, national deity of the Arias. The most famous of the Apsaras are Urvasi, Menaka, Rambha and Tilottama, who are very versed in the arts of music and dance, their favorite instruments being the cymbal and the flute. On more than one occasion these women were sent by Indra to earth with the aim of seducing and leading astray those wise men who, because of their continence and constancy in the search for perfection, risked becoming a threat to the supremacy of Indra himself or other deities. Relief of a column from the excavations of Bharhut, 2nd century BC

category: HIS

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copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: India

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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object name: 52664

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continent: Asia

image century : II a.C.

image epoch: Mondo antico

subject century: II a.C.

subject epoch: Mondo antico

technique: Bassorilievo

id: 27270

file name: FSNgilardi_52664.jpg

keywords

IndiareligionwomanpartydanceBrahmaIndraApsarasTilottamaRambhaMenakaUrvasiWomendancedancerseductionseductressAncient worldHinduismBharatarcheologyreligion