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PaintingGI Tagged · 2021
Manjusha Art
TownBhagalpur
StateBihar
Craft typePainting
GI tag2021
About
An ancient folk-art tradition painted on triangular-topped boxes and scrolls, telling the regional Bihula-Bishahari serpent-goddess legend through a distinctive, boldly outlined figurative style.
Did you know? Manjusha is sometimes called "comic-strip art" because its paintings unfold a full story in sequential panels — one of the very few Indian folk art traditions built around visual storytelling in this exact format.