Description'The freedom and beauty of the green outdoors-soft beds ofgrass and ferns; the caress of the breeze; the scent of flowers;birdsong and moonlight-inflame desire in the nayak (hero)and the nayika (heroine) in ancient and medieval Indian art andliterature... Whether the nayak and nayika be mortals or gods, love is always erotic, and its most beautiful expression happensin the lap of nature, as the lovers give themselves to each otherwithout inhibition beneath the open sky.'In this exquisite book, one of India's most respected authorities on art, aesthetics and pre-modern sexuality brings us images that celebrate eroticlove in the outdoors. With a brilliant introduction providing the context, shehas put together glorious visual evidence of the freedom that lovers onceenjoyed in South Asia.