Pattachitra is the temple-scroll painting of Odisha — a thousand-year-old chitrakar craft from Raghurajpur and Puri, painted on palm-leaf and cotton cloth for the Jagannath Temple. Every figure is bound by a thick coconut-soot outline, filled with flat saturated mineral pigment, and ringed by a dense floral border-band.
No perspective, no shading — only saturated narrative registered band-by-band down a vertical scroll. The vocabulary is fixed: the Jagannath triad, the Dashavatara, Krishna leelas, conch, chakra, lotus, peacock. The medium is mineral pigment bound by neem-tree gum.
帕塔奇特拉（Pattachitra）是印度奥里萨邦延续千年的寺庙画卷传统。在拉古拉杰普尔与普里两座村镇，奇特拉卡（chitrakar）画师世家用棕榈叶和棉布绘制供奉于札格纳特神庙的神祇长卷——以海贝白、姜黄黄、朱砂红、椰壳烟黑等纯天然矿物颜料调出饱满的色块，外圈以一道密不透风的花卉边带封缄。
画风规矩极严：人物只有正面或绝对侧脸，从不三分之四转身；空间没有透视，故事被分成多层横带、自上而下逐场叙述。常见母题为札格纳特三神、十化身、克里希纳传奇、罗摩故事、海螺、法轮、孔雀、莲花。底色是棕榈叶的米黄奶白，主色是朱砂红、靛蓝、翠绿、藏红橙，由黏稠的楝树树胶将矿物颜料绑定在布上。它不是装饰，是用颜色讲述的经文。