Devotional Warm — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. The Samudra Manthana, the churning of the ocean of milk, is one of the great cosmic episodes of the Puranas: devas and asuras together churn the sea to win amrita, the nectar of immortality, using Mount Mandara as the churning rod and the serpent Vasuki as the rope, while Vishnu takes the form of Kurma, the turtle, to bear the mountain on his back. From the churning rise many treasures and finally Dhanvantari with the pot of amrita. Bharni — from the Maithili word for filling — is the Madhubani style historically practised by Brahmin women of Mithila, distinct from Kayastha Kachni line work and Dusadh Godna tattoo grammar. On freshly plastered kohbar ghar and festival walls called bhitti chitra, artists drew bold lampblack outlines then flooded enclosed shapes with vermillion, turmeric, indigo, and forest green until no cream showed through — the visual logic buyers still associate with classical deity panels.