I visited Musee guimet in Paris in June this year. Its collections focus on South East Asia. I found the following statue of shailabhanjika to be very fascinating. 10th or 11th century AD- Source...Madhya Pradesh or Rajasthan.
A
salabhanjika is the
sculpture of a woman, displaying stylized feminine features, standing near a
tree and grasping a branch. The name of these figures comes from the Sanskrit śālabhañjikā
meaning 'breaking a branch of a sala tree.
