Creator and Creation

A technique of painting patterns with mordant onto cotton with the use of a bamboo reed or pen, called a kalam, produced chintzes that were called kalamkari. Since it is a temple art, gods and goddesses form an important theme.

Riding on the hamsa, their vahana, are Brahma, the creator and Saraswati, the goddess of culture and learning. According to the Matsya Purana, Brahma performed austere meditation in order to create, and among the children thus created was Saraswati. Brahma became enamoured of her and found her beauty astounding. The daughter once prostrated and began to walk around him in devotion. Brahma kept his seat, but his keen desire of never ceasing to look at her caused a face to spring in each direction and thus gave him five faces. In this two-dimensional painting, three faces are visible. Brahma holds his attributes, a rosary and a book in two hands. Saraswati, sitting with one leg pendant, is holding the veena in the hand.

The swan, which is the vehicle of Brahma, is found as the vahana of Saraswati in many of her images, a fact that unmistakably points to her original place in the Indian mythology as Brahmani on the consort of Brahma. This dual coloured kalamkari is framed by a twin border enclosing the picture perfect painting of the creator and his creation.

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