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Manjusha Anga Snake-Scroll

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Manjusha art is the narrative scroll painting of the Anga region around Bhagalpur, Bihar — a storytelling tradition rooted in the Bihula-Bishahari snake-goddess legend and its annual Bishahari puja. Panels unfold sequentially like a folk comic strip, painted on handmade paper scrolls and on the temple-shaped Manjusha boxes carried in procession. Artists work in only three pigments — green for outline and nature, pink for excitement and sacrifice, yellow for joy and divinity — rendering flat, angular figures nicknamed "English alphabet" style for their stick-letter economy. X-shaped belpatra frames, wavy Lehariya lines and unbroken rows of snakes bind every panel.

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  • OriginAnga / Bhagalpur, Bihar, India
  • Period~7th-century-rooted Anga folk tradition; living sequential folk painting practiced today
  • DesignerManjusha folk artists · Bihula-Bishahari temple-box makers
  • MovementsManjusha Snake Painting · Bihula-Bishahari narrative art · Indian sequential folk painting

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