India: 'Abhisarika Nayika (The Heroine Going to Meet Her Lover at an Appointed Place)'. Watercolour painting by Mola Ram (1743-1833), c. 1800. Abhisarika is a heroine, who sets aside her modesty and moves out of her home to secretly meet her lover. She is depicted at the door of her house and on her way to the tryst, defying all kinds of difficulties like the storm, snakes and dangers of the forest. The Ashta-Nayika is a collective name for eight types of nayikas or heroines as classified by Bharata in his Sanskrit treatise on performing arts, the Natya Shastra.

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