This frieze with both male and female dancers is from a temple at Palitana near the important Jain pilgrimage site of Satrunjaya. Most temples in and around Satrunjaya were destroyed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the mid-nineteenth century some fragments were retrieved from the area and are now housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. There is no certainty that this frieze comes from a Jain temple, but Jainism is the predominant religion in the region.

Male and female figures alternate in deep recesses between circular columns. Curiously while the males are dancing vigorously in a variety of postures and gestures, the females stand gracefully. From the left, the first stands in the svastika posture and holds a pot with both hands, the second stands with her right hip thrust out and holding a pot with her right hand only, the third strikes the familiar posture of removing a thorn from her foot as she grasps perhaps a branch with her left arm and the fourth dangles a branch of mangoes with her right hand. These activities clearly make them alasakanya or indolent girls seen in such provocative abundance in the better known temples of Khajuraho.