Prayer Hall Wall Art

Prayer Hall — 7 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Pattachitra is the cloth-scroll painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, painted on patta (cotton treated with tamarind-seed paste and chalk) in five mineral colours — conch-white, lamp-black, haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. The Kaliya-daman episode, in which the young Krishna subdues the poison-serpent of the Yamuna and dances on its hoods, is a favourite Krishna-leela subject for patta painters. Pattachitra is the cloth-painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, painted on patta (cotton treated with tamarind-seed paste and chalk) in five mineral colours — conch-white, lamp-black, haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. Narasimha, the lion-man, is the fourth of Vishnu's ten avatars (Dasavatara) and is especially revered in Odisha, where the deity is closely linked to the Jagannath cult at Puri.

Updated 22 Jun 2026