India/Nepal: 'Deceived Heroine (Vipralabdha)'. Watercolour painting appended to a Ragamala (Garland of Memories), c. 1650. Vipralabdha, also spelt Vipralabhdha, is a deceived heroine, who waited for her lover the whole night. She is depicted throwing away her jewellery as her lover did not keep his promise. 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. The eight nayikas represent eight different states (avastha) in relationship to her hero or nayaka.

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