About Pattachitra (Odisha Temple Scroll)
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.
Learn more about the Pattachitra (Odisha Temple Scroll) style
- Origin
- Odisha (Raghurajpur and Puri), India
- Era
- 12th century onward; peak 1200–1500 under Eastern Ganga + Suryavamsi dynasties; continuous living tradition
- Key figures
- Jagannath Mahapatra · Bhaskar Mahapatra · Maharana chitrakar families of Raghurajpur
- Movements
- Jagannath cult iconography · Indian devotional cloth-painting · Palm-leaf manuscript (chitra-pothi) tradition
Pattachitra (Odisha Temple Scroll) design spec
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