Krishna stealing the clothes of milk-maids

Carved wooden figure groups such as this one were probably used to ornament large chariots on which images of deities were taken on procession through the streets on festival days.

Krishna the young cowherd was so handsome and alluring that all the village women were entranced. When he played his flute they were drawn away from their fathers and husbands to him. He teased them as lovers tease their beloveds. Once, when the young women left their clothes on the riverbank while they bathed, Krishna stole the clothes and climbed a tree with them. The young women came shyly out of the river to get their clothes back, and Krishna called to them, "Aha, little cow girls, what are you doing, running around naked? Fold your hands at once and beg for your clothes!" This episode is sometimes interpreted to mean that we humans must put aside our concerns with material things and approach the divine with our souls laid bare.

Quotations above from Classical Hindu Mythology, A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas, translated by Cornelia Dimmitt and J.A.B. van Buitenen, 1978.