The brief was a single grand exception: Pithora rides on horses, but here Ganadev comes in on an ornamented elephant, so the layout had to make the elephant the centre while keeping the horse-riders as its honour guard. Central-deity symmetry did it — the blue elephant strides dead-centre under a small canopy, its trappings flat-filled and patterned, with deity horse-riders pressing in on either side as escort rather than competition. The elephant's bulk is balanced by the calm cream ground around it, so it reads as stately, not crowded. Among the Rathwa the mount carries the deity onto the household wall, and giving Ganadev the largest, most ornamented mount marks his standing in the procession. Medium-light fill keeps the elephant's patterning legible and the flanking riders distinct.