www.IndianMiniaturePaintings.co.uk - Indian miniature painting: Couple in a pavioion seated on a bed in the sexual asana of Phanabhritpasha. Nepal, Bhaktapur, circa 1700. Opaque watercolour with gold on treated cloth. 17.4 x 17.4cm

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Couple in a pavioion seated on a bed in the sexual asana of Phanabhritpasha. Nepal, Bhaktapur, circa 1700. Opaque watercolour with gold on treated cloth. 17.4 x 17.4cm

This posture, 'The Knot of the Hooded One', is descibed in the 'Ratiratnapradipika' (said to have been composed by Maharaja Prauadha Devaraya of Vijayanagara r.1422-66): "When your lover passes her arms under her raised thighs and twines her fingers together behind your neck, pulling your face down to be kissed".

From a widely published series inc. P Pal, Art of Nepal: Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, 1985, cat. P24; P Rawson, Tantra, 1972, figs 96-102.

Ref: 000541

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