Odisha is a
state of arts and cultures. Here varieties of arts and crafts are present from
ancient days. One of the famous arts in Odisha is pattachitra art. The
pattachitra arts are basically beautiful paintings made on cloths by
traditional artist of Odisha. More accurately the place “Raghurajpur” is very
much popular and well known for the Pattachitra art. From very old days skilful
artist of this village producing very fine art pieces of the famous art. The
word pattachitra is a combination of two Sanskrit word “Patta” means “cloth”
and chitra meance “picture”. So the meaning of pattachitra is cloth-based
scroll painting. This is a traditional painting in Odisha. As the theme and style
of the pattachitra painting are inspaired from the life style of Hindu god Lord
Jagannath, Lord Krishna and the subject matter of the pattachitra painting is
mostly mythological, religious stories and folk lore these paintings are very
much important for Hindus from the religion point of view.
The themes of
the pattachitra paintings are chiefly on Lord Jagannath and Radha-Krishna,
different "Vesas" of Shri Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra, temple
activities, the ten incarnations of Vishnu basing on the 'Gita Govinda' of
Jayadev, Kama Kujara Navagunjara, Ramayana, Mahabharata, so most of the Hindu
people in all over the Odisha like these paintings very much.
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As
pattachitra paintings are becomes very much popular, so the artist of odisha
uses the theme and style of pattachitra painting in different arts. One of the
finest examples of this is Famous Ganjapa Patachitra Cards.
Ganjapa
Patachitra Cards are use in a traditional card game of Odisha named as “Ganjapa”.
This is a traditional card in Odisha from very old days. This traditional card
game Ganjapa is played with circular shaped cards and the cards are Pattachitra
painted cards. The game Ganjapa originated in the 16th century. This game Ganjapa
is a recreational game for males of the Odisha, primarily villagers, kings and
their court men and other peoples are very much enjoyed the game. This game Ganjapa
is played as "Charirangi" means cards of 4 colors,
"Atharangi" means cards of 8 colours, "Dasarangi" means
cards of 10 colours, "Bararangi" means cards of 12 colours,
"Chaudarangi" means cards of 14 colours and "Sohalarangi"
means cards of 16 colours are played.
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