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Ganjifa cards are circular or rectangular, and traditionally hand-painted by artisans. Mysore 

Reviving a Forgotten Art Form

    

History of Ganjifa Paintings

 Originally the one thousand years old playing cards from India were known as Kreeda Patra in Sanskrit.

Each cards were sensitively hand painted with super fine squirrel hair brushes using Vegetables and mineral colors in miniature style. Various  mediums like Ivory, tortoise shell, mother of pearl, gold and silver in circular and rectangular shapes. Ganjifa Cards were created on handmade paper, cloth or sandalwood.

The old state of Mysore saw a great cultural and religious revival under MommudiKrishnarajaWodeyar (1794-1868). The Maharaja was the author of –among many books-the monumental 'Sri Tatwanidhi' the last chapter of which describes a 18 packs of cards(Kreeda Patra) invented and designed by ruler and his artists. These Kreeda Patras were also known as Chada or DevaraAata (God's Game) in Karnataka.

Winner of many awards. Raghupathi Bhat

Contact Information

Raghupathi Bhatta's Varieties of Mysore Ganjifa paintings of different gods and goddesses like Lakshmi, Sarawathi, Chamundeshwari, Saptamatrika series, Shiva, Vishnu, Dashavatara series, Ganapathi series, Ramayana series etc

website   quiet informative

http://mysoreganjifa.com/index.html

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