Hansini Nayika

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Indian aesthetic tradition classifies women broadly in four types. This is based on both their physiognomic attributes and the power to generate in the male various kinds of emotions.These four kinds are padmini nayika, hansini nayika, shankhini nayika and hastini nayika. The hansini nayika, the female possessed of a swan's attributes, is described as a heroine with long raised neck, bright eyes, slender waist, well-defined breasts, long thick hair dressed like a swan's tail, and a tall, lean and thin figure endowed with great agility and tempting charm.

In their representations of hansini nayikas artists have created, both on canvas and in stone, several female figures, as the one here, outstanding in both beauty and figurative grace. For symbolizing their hansini characteristic, they have rendered variedly along them the figures of swans. Here in this painting the cute female has been depicted with a swan held close to her bosom and the viewing eye might easily discern the similitude between the figure of the bird and that of the woman.