Surasundari

City Palace Museum, Udaipur

The museum has a few Hindu statues that predate the Rajput period. This surasundari (beautiful celestial maiden) is dated to the 11th century. Her tribhanga sway and cross-legged posture would not be out of place in a 15th century temple, but the naturalism (relatively speaking; few Indian sculptures are naturalistic in any absolute sense) of this figure is a clue to its earlier date.