Sunday, March 2, 2014

What is Hase chittra.

Hase is a platform used auspicious occasion. This is the definition as per the Kannada dictionary.  Hase Chitra is the art drawn drawn on the festive occasions.  Though similar to a rangavalli this is a variant. The usage of square and triangles dominate. Though a few circles and semicircles are used.  The deviation from rangoli arises in its usage.
People of maenad use this to decorate their walls, doors and house entrances. The red floor, rice flour and flours of kaarekaayi and gurge are used. These are natural colours. Rice straw is used as a brush this art is dominated by women.
Gombe saalu sita mudi, battada saalu,, kuccu saalu chinaani, tirugumane are are various pattern. The triangular human and animal shapes, weddings, palanquins, and birds, cattle and other daily scenes are depicted.

Bamboo baskets are coated with red mud and pictures are drawn with rice flour.  The festival sweets are then distributed with this. 

Sunday, September 27, 2009

stree shakti

this was tanvi's concept of stree shakti when she was in standard 10. it makes feel very proud.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Saturday, January 10, 2009

suryanarayana



The pratyaksha or visible god, the nishkama seva that he renders, was one of the venerable of the Vedic tradition with varuna and vayu. Somewhere the Vaishnava cult absorbed him.
He is described as riding on a chariot with single wheel, a legless charioteer Aruna and 7 splendorous white horses. This iconographic theme is also mentioned in the Greek mythology to describe Apollo and the Inca civilization too.
He nourishes and he is the energizer, the healer he is the nishkama or selfless.

prakriti-purusha



Kamakshi, the goddess of desires, she is seen here with all the symbols of Kama the god of love. Including the parrot, sugarcane and flowered arrow. She sits on Shiva forcing him to participate in the worldly life.
They form the completeness of life,
The mutable prakriti or nature and the unchanging soul. The purusha
She faces the north and he the south
She faces the permanence of the ever blazing tapa of the soul while he faces the ever changing flow of the Rasa of nature.