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Description: Women in music and dance: Music and dancing were considered special accomplishments of women. Appearing as they do in temple sculpture and painting, it is mostly the devotional aspect of these art forms that is represented. However, one does also notice the purely decorative use of the female dancer in art. The expression of bhakti or devotion through music and dance is common to both Buddhist and Hindu forms of worship. Their incidence is more pronounced in the Polonnaruva and post-Polonnaruva…

Contributor: Co-Author: Seneviratna, Harsha

Collection: Women in Sri Lankan Sculpture and Painting