DESIGN BRIEF: This panel is a border study, not a deity narrative — the layout problem was how to make a rangoli frame read as sacred geometry on a wall without importing Aripana floor-ritual white paste or Kohbar wedding procession figures. Radial-mandala symmetry solves legibility: the concentric petal rings orbit a single black bindu so every viewer standing in a hallway finds the centre immediately, the way a courtyard rangoli guides the eye to the threshold. I paired Kachni hatching discipline with selective Bharni flat fills because Kayastha line tradition often reserved indigo and turmeric for accent petals while building texture through parallel strokes — the fish corners and vine fillers carry the line work; the yellow cardinal petals and alternating border lotus cells carry the colour pulse. Four corner fish face inward as macha abundance guardians without crowding the mandala; top and bottom lotus blooms anchor the vertical axis the way Kamaldah Aripan lotus diagrams anchor ritual floors. The repeating lotus-petal border band is the hero equal to the centre — each indigo and yellow petal cell hatched vertically so the frame reads as rangoli perimeter, not generic picture moulding.