 Known as the Indian Mona Lisa, Salabhanjika is an exquisitely carved female figure now residing, under lock and key, in Gwalior's archeological museum. Images of Salabhanjika are standard decorative elements in Indian sculpture - graceful carvings of young girls in various poses such as dancing, grooming themselves or playing musical instruments. Usually features like breasts and hips are realised in an exaggerated form. Salabhanjika images are often located in the 'garbhagrihas' of temples where worshipers engage in circumambulation - hence this circular interpretation which has, at its centre, the carved ceiling of the garbhagriha located at Keshava Temple, Belur.     |