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Painting
Ganjapa
TownRaghurajpur
StateOdisha
Craft typePainting
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About
A traditional hand-painted circular playing card game of Odisha, descended from the Persian Ganjifa cards, its imagery closely tied to Jagannath temple culture and mythology.
Did you know? Unlike standard rectangular playing cards, Ganjapa cards are perfectly round, and a full traditional deck can include over a hundred hand-painted cards depicting different mythological figures and incarnations.