{"id":3243,"date":"2015-10-11T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2015-10-11T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T06:30:48","slug":"shalabhanjika-monalisa-in-stone-museum-gwalior-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/shalabhanjika-monalisa-in-stone-museum-gwalior-fort\/","title":{"rendered":"Shalabhanjika , Monalisa in Stone , Museum , Gwalior Fort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shalabhanjika\u00a0<\/strong> is a price less \u00a0stone statue of a lady of World fame Ancient India art work recovered from Gyaraspur<\/strong> near Sanchi<\/strong> and Vidisha<\/strong> in Madhya Pradesh<\/strong>\u00a0now kept in the museum of Gwalior Fort under high security , special permission is required from the Archaeological Survey of India to visit this particular \u00a0chamber.
\nThere were two such sculpted statues installed at the entrance of Sanchi Stupa<\/strong> , during the raids of Mugal King Aurangzeb’s army\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0one of it was destroyed and this one was thrown in the forests of Gyaraspur, later to be recovered in 19th Century . In early 1980 a \u00a0Visitor French Tourist Group named it Monalisa in Stone<\/strong>
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Shalabhanjika , Museum , Gwalior Fort<\/p><\/div>
\nThe beauty of this stone statue is the creation of very clear strange smile on a face by the sculpture , it is probably sculpted during 10 – 11 th \u00a0AD , the waist holds\u00a0lower garment across her broad hips and her full bloomed body which \u00a0has a bare torso \u00a0with a \u00a0pearl necklace around her neck , a long necklace falling between her breasts and then one chain going down up to her naval . Eyes and bowed eyebrows , sharp nose , ear rings , her hair with bun decorated with jewelry and precious stones . The lady seems to be standing under a Saal tree holding a branch .<\/strong> She is also known as the Tree\u00a0Goddess . The Sanskrit name Shalabhanjika means “A lady breaking Saal branch”<\/strong>
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Shalabhanjika<\/p><\/div>
\nShalabhanjika<\/strong> are found mostly at the entrances of Stupa<\/strong> .\u00a0The sandstone beams across the gateways were held up by bracket figures like this, representing female tree spirits called Yakshika<\/strong>\u00a0. In an ancient \u00a0Indian fertility rite<\/strong>, beautiful young girls were said to usher in spring by kicking a tree trunk while breaking off a branch<\/strong>, so as to arouse it into blossoming.\u00a0the Shalabhanjika Yakshika<\/strong> serves as a fertility symbol associated with the spirit of the tree and earth to ensure the auspiciousness of the site where the Stupa\u00a0is built.<\/strong>
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Shalabhanjika\u00a0 is a price less \u00a0stone statue of a lady of World fame Ancient India art work recovered from Gyaraspur near Sanchi and Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh\u00a0now kept in the museum of Gwalior Fort under high security , special permission is required from the Archaeological Survey of India to visit this particular \u00a0chamber. There were … →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12,16,17,18,19,21],"tags":[53,123,271,956,957,958,960,1106,1477,1683,1854,1900,2408,2409,2439,2440,2522,2628,2736,2926,3032],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-buddhist-monuments","category-history","category-monuments","category-news","category-people","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","tag-ad","tag-ancient-india","tag-beautiful","tag-gwalior","tag-gwalior-fort","tag-gwalior-fort-museum","tag-gyaraspur","tag-india","tag-lady-breaking-saal-branch","tag-madhya-pradesh","tag-monalisa-in-stone","tag-mugal-king-aurangzeb","tag-saal-tree","tag-saal-tree-holding-branch","tag-sanchi","tag-sanchi-stupa","tag-shalabhanjika-yakshika","tag-site","tag-stupa","tag-tree-goddess","tag-vidisha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}