{"product_id":"odisha-pattachitra-navagunjara-100-linen-limited-edition","title":"Odisha Pattachitra - Navagunjara | 100% Linen | Limited Edition","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eNavagunjara belongs to a distinctly Odia imagination of the Mahabharata.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIts story is associated with the \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eOdia Mahabharata of Sarala Das\u003c\/span\u003e, the fifteenth-century poet whose retelling of the epic became foundational to Odisha’s literary tradition. In this narrative world, Arjuna encounters an extraordinary being whose body cannot be understood through any single familiar form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eNavagunjara brings together \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003enine different living forms in one body\u003c\/span\u003e. Its anatomy draws upon the characteristics of different creatures, while a human arm bearing a divine attribute provides the crucial sign of recognition. What initially appears strange and impossible gradually reveals itself to Arjuna as a manifestation of the divine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThe composite body is central to the meaning of Navagunjara. Its different parts are not assembled merely to create a fantastical creature. They express an idea of \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003ethe many existing within the one\u003c\/span\u003e — that the divine may appear beyond familiar categories and still remain whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThis makes Arjuna’s act of recognition as important as the form itself. He must look beyond the apparent contradictions of the body before him and perceive the unity contained within it. Navagunjara therefore becomes an image not only of divine manifestation, but also of perception: the ability to recognise a larger order within forms that initially seem irreconcilable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThe subject holds particular importance in Odisha because it connects two of the region’s enduring cultural languages — \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eliterature and painting\u003c\/span\u003e. Emerging from Odisha’s own telling of the Mahabharata, Navagunjara entered the visual vocabulary of the region and has been represented by painters associated with centres such as \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003ePuri and Raghurajpur\u003c\/span\u003e. The form is also historically known as \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eAth-Rangi\u003c\/span\u003e, reflecting its long presence within Odisha’s painted traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eWithin \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eOdisha Pattachitra\u003c\/span\u003e, Navagunjara is therefore more than an arresting composite figure. It carries forward an imagination particular to the region: an episode shaped through Odia literature and preserved through generations of image-making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eOn this linen kurta, the hand-painted Navagunjara continues that visual lineage. Its intentionally composite anatomy remains the centre of the composition, allowing an old Odia conception of multiplicity, recognition and divine presence to enter a contemporary object without losing the story from which it originates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eNine forms inhabit one being. What first challenges recognition ultimately reveals the possibility of the divine existing beyond any single form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The House Of Rule Zero","offers":[{"title":"S \/ Azure","offer_id":49264604479662,"sku":null,"price":16000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M \/ Azure","offer_id":49264604512430,"sku":null,"price":16000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L \/ Azure","offer_id":49264604545198,"sku":null,"price":16000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL \/ Azure","offer_id":49264604577966,"sku":null,"price":16000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/5680\/5806\/files\/odisha-pattachitra-navagunjara-handpainted-linen-short-kurta-university-construction-hero.webp?v=1788200664","url":"https:\/\/www.thehouseofrulezero.com\/products\/odisha-pattachitra-navagunjara-100-linen-limited-edition","provider":"The House Of Rule Zero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}