page_title: Ashta Nayika
section_title: Proshitabhartruka
hierarchical_section_title: Ashta Nayika / The classification / Proshitabhartruka
context_page_description: The Ashta-Nayika is a collective name for eight types of nayikas or heroines as classified by Bharata in his Sanskrit treatise on performing arts - Natya Shastra. The eight nayikas represent eight different states in relationship to her hero or nayaka. As archetypal states of the romantic heroine, it has been used as theme in Indian painting, literature, sculpture as well as Indian classical dance and music.
context_section_description: Proshitabhartruka ("one with a sojourning husband") or Proshitapatika (as named by Keshavadasa) is the woman whose husband has gone away from her for some business and does not return on the appointed day. She is depicted seated mourning, surrounded by her maids, but refusing to be consoled.
  The Ragavibodha describes the raginis Dhanashri and Kamodi as Proshitabhartrukas.
caption: Proshita-patika mourning.
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