This pair of ladies, like the other paintings on Sigiriya rock, represent Kasyapa's court ladies and their attendants. At the same time, they also represent apsarasas, or nymphs of the celestial court. As so often in Asian art, they might well be both: Kasyapa identified himself with Kubera, so that a portrait of his court could, simultaneously, also represent the heavenly court of the God of Wealth. The green flesh tone in these paintings is an underlayment, that has been uncovered by deterioration and loss of the overlying pigments over time.