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30 July 2014 / mandana

Rajasthan mandana, part 7 "Inspired women painters"

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Mandana paintings, part 8 "Paglya, the divine footprints"

The goddess is also invoked through unusual mandana called paglya, literally “footmark”. Drawn outside the house on the verandah and around the main mandana, they welcome the goddess inside the home to bless the family members.
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Rajasthan mandana, part 6 "Coating and painting the ground"

For the paintings, they prepare a primer with dung, water and clay to which light or dark yellow ochre is added. After a few days of drying, the liming is now ready. To paint, they use a section of a date palm leaf’s midrib (khajur) which works as a reservoir as it is fibrous.
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