Durga Mahishasuramardini Wall Art

Durga Mahishasuramardini — 2 museum-grade prints, engineered to a wall. Durga as Mahishasuramardini — the slayer of the buffalo demon Mahishasura — is among the most beloved forms of the Goddess, and in Kerala she is revered as Bhagavati across countless kavus and temples. Here she is painted in bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition that flourished roughly from the 16th to 19th century and is still painted today: flat panchavarna pigments (red, yellow, green, black, white over an ochre ground), a bold lamp-black outline and the school's elongated lotus-shaped eyes. Pattachitra is the cloth-scroll painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, worked in five mineral colours on patta — cotton stiffened with tamarind-seed paste and chalk: conch-white (sankha), lamp-black (kalia), haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. Durga as Mahishasuramardini, the slayer of the buffalo demon Mahishasura, is the central Devi subject and the focus of the autumn Durga Puja and Navaratri festivals, observed with great fervour in eastern India including Odisha.

Updated 22 Jun 2026