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Painting
Phad Painting
TownBhilwara
StateRajasthan
Craft typePainting
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About
A traditional scroll-painting style depicting the folk deities Pabuji and Devnarayan, historically used as portable travelling shrines by Bhopa priest-singers who would unfurl the phad at night and narrate the deity's story through song.
Did you know? A Phad scroll was traditionally treated as sacred the moment the deity's eyes were painted on — until that final step, the cloth was considered ordinary fabric, but once complete, it functioned as an actual mobile temple for worship.