The brief was the Venugopala form: Krishna the cowherd whose flute draws everything toward him, so the composition centres one dominant green-bodied Krishna in the classic triple-bent tribhanga, both hands at the flute, on a lotus under a makara-toranam arch. The green body is the serene sattvic register of Kerala's guna code, exactly the gentle pastoral Krishna this form is loved as. Rather than a crowd, the density stays medium-light: a single gopi on each side holding a lotus, a white cow resting at each corner with its head turned up to the music, and the warm ochre ground left open around the figure. The flute is the still centre everything in the panel leans toward.