DESIGN BRIEF: Rank 13 in the classical Kachni lane asked for a sylvan panel that breathes without turning into a flat Bharni colour block. The layout problem was pairing two deer in one portrait field without a centred mirror making them look posed for a studio portrait — diagonal-flow symmetry solves it: the cobalt stream becomes the narrative spine, upper-left buck standing alert, lower-right doe resting and looking back across the water. Kachni line density does the heavy lifting — vertical hatching on ochre bodies, diagonal strokes in green leaves, scalloped wave bands in the stream — so the cream ground stays honest while the forest still reads full. Deer carry gentle forest-life symbolism in Mithila panels (mriga in Sanskrit, mriga van shobha in folk catalogues); here the pair stays non-ritual, non-wedding, just sylvan neighbours separated by a ford you'd find in a village woodcut. The lotus border and scale-pattern ground mounds anchor the scene in classical four-side frame discipline without importing a full Kohbar narrative.