Urancia Pink, Stone, Carving, Navagunjara Decorative Showpiece - 10 cm  (Stone, Pink)

This is the stone carving work of Raghurajpur famous in Orissa for Handicraft Village.It is a traditional stone carving of Orissa, India.These stone carving are based on Hindu Mythology and specially inspired by idian culture. words patta, meaning canvas, and chitra, meaning picture. Pattachitra is thus a carving done on stone , and is manifested by rich colourful application, creative motifs and designs, and portrayal of simple themes, mostly mythological in depiction. Navagunjara is a creature composed of nine different animals. The animal is a common motif in the Pata-Chitra style of painting, of the Indian state of Odisha. The beast is considered a form of the Hindu god Vishnu, or of Krishna, who is considered an Avatar of Vishnu. It is considered a variant of the Omnipresent or vast form of Krishna, that he displays to Arjuna, as mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita, a part of the epic Mahabharata. Navagunjara has the head of a rooster, and stands on three feet, those of an elephant, tiger and deer or horse; the fourth limb is a raised human arm carrying a lotus or a wheel. The beast has the neck of a peacock, the back or hump of a bull and the waist of a lion; the tail is a serpent.