The beautiful mother goddess is given a refine and detail treatment in the Madhubani painting. The beautiful goddess is being encircled by a string of animals and some rings encircle the goddess. A refinement in treatment is manifest in the beautiful Madhubani painting. Madhubani painting has been done traditionally by the women of villages around Madhubani (the literal meaning of which is forests of honey) and other areas of Mithila. The painting was traditionally done on freshly plastered mud wall of huts, but now it is also done on cloth, hand-made paper and canvas.