of Indian poetry and music, the term salabhanjika is synonymous with the pathya meter - one of the minor chanda (poetic meter) in the catuspadi group, and is used for transition. The shalabhanjika is a common decorative element and Indian sculpture found inside and outside religious and secular spaces of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain architecture.

In Buddhist sites, reliefs on stupas displayed a stylized female by a tree, typically grasping or breaking a branch as Buddha's