Vasakasajja Nayika: a lady dressed and awaiting her lover.

There are eight types of nayikas (heroines) in traditional Indian visual and performing arts, each representing different states or moods in relation to her nayak (hero). Vasakasajja Nayika is depicted reclining on her charpoi smoking a hookah and listening to two female musicians as she awaits her lover. An attendant kneels beside the bed while another stands holding a flywhisk.

The style of painting and its borders associate it with the artists of the Punjab Hills in the early 19th century.