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WrittenbySumeghaGulati|NewDelhi|Publishedon:March3,20153:35am

A medieval sculpture of a woman known as parrot ladyor parrot woman, probably stolen from a temple inIndia, has been found in Canada. A team of three officials two from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) andone from the Geological Survey of India (GSI) will travel

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to Canada to inspect the statue and explore the possibilityof bringing it back to the country.

The ASIs Director (Antiquity), D N Dimri, told The IndianExpress that Canadian investigators who intercepted thepiece noticed similarities with Indian art, and alerted theIndian High Commission. The picture they have sent usindicates clearly that the sculpture is a piece of Indian art.How the piece was stolen, from where and exactly when,and how it reached Canada, is a matter of investigation,Dimri said.

The parrot lady is a sculpture of a naayika or heroine seenat several medieval temples in central and southern India.The sculpture typically denotes a woman in a dancing orpreening pose, talking to a parrot that is perched on herhand or shoulder, with the bird appearing as a friend(sakhaa) or confidant of the naayika.

The parrot lady is a certain representation of a naayika,several examples of which are known to Indian art history.It is often described as a shukasarika, a shuka being aparrot, and is seen at many early medieval temples. Awoman with a parrot is an important motif in Indianliterature, poetry, art and architecture, Dr Parul PandyaDhar, professor of art history at Delhi University, said.

In one particular representation, a parrot is shownperched on the ladys head, with its beak touching her hair.This is inconographically different and unusual, Dr Dharsaid.

Naayikas have been represented at Hindu, Buddhist andJain temples, and became especially popular in themedieval period, when they began to be regarded asauspicious. The naayikas became an object of reverence as

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well as a celebration of the female body, Dhar said.

In his book Woman in Indian Sculpture, Manohar LaxmanVaradpande writes that depictions of women with birdsare common in the temples of Orissa and central India,especially in the Khajuraho complex. In Indian mythology,the parrot is considered the vehicle of Cupid or Kamadeva,the God of Love, Varadpande writes.

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