Lajja Gauri from the Sangameshwara Temple, Kudavelli, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, India

This is a stone sculpture of Lajja Gauri from the Sangameshwara
Temple, Kudavelli, Kurnool District,Andhra Pradesh,
India, c. 650 CE, now in the Alampur Museum.

The modeling of the female figure is supple and sensitive. The suggestion of soft, sagging stomach flesh, like the slackening of a woman's abdomen after childbirth, is masterly. The breasts are firm with folds of flesh beneath them. The arms and shoulders are delicate and feminine. The legs, in uttanapad, are spread naturally with the knees up, the feet are flexed with soles up, and the toes are tensed. The nude body is ornamented with necklace, girdle, bracelets, and armlets that are like a vine tendril wrapping around the arms and actually ending in a leaf.