'Arjuna and the River Nymph', 1913. Arjuna releases the apsara, or divine nymph from the curse of a sage to live as a crocodile. From "Indian Myth and Legend", by Donald A. Mackenzie. [The Gresham Publishing Company Limited, London, 1913]

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