Deity Green Wall Art

Deity Green — 9 museum-grade prints in this palette. Ayyappa, also called Sastha or Dharmasastha, is the deity of Sabarimala, one of the most visited pilgrimage shrines in India, reached after a strict forty-one-day vratham. He is classically shown in the seated yogic posture with the yoga-pattam band around the knees, and his vahana is the tiger. Dakshinamurthy is Shiva in his aspect as the supreme guru — the teacher who imparts knowledge in silence, seated facing south (dakshina), often under a banyan, with the chinmudra and surrounded by sages. He is a classic subject of bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition that flourished roughly from the 16th to 19th century and is still painted today: flat panchavarna pigments (red, yellow, green, black, white over an ochre ground), a bold lamp-black outline and the school's elongated lotus-shaped eyes. The Dashavatara — the ten principal incarnations of Vishnu, taken to restore dharma across the ages — runs in the classical sequence from Matsya to Kalki, with Buddha widely counted among the ten in the Indian tradition. It is a long-standing subject of temple narrative painting, and here it is rendered in bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition that flourished roughly from the 16th to 19th century and is still painted today: flat panchavarna pigments (red, yellow, green, black, white over an ochre ground), a bold lamp-black outline and the school's elongated lotus-shaped eyes.

Updated 22 Jun 2026