The three deities painted in Kalighat style, c.1850

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"Patua artist from Kalighat, active circa 1850. Lord Jagannath, watercolour and gouache, heightened with silver paint. Patua artists were bazaar artists working outside the Kalighat temple in Calcutta, India."





"Idols in the temple of Juggernaut," from 'Peoples of the World' by Robert Brown, 1892; *a cropped version of this engraving, 1881*

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A wonderful set of Bastar-style brass images

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A modern bazaar art version

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The deities superimposed on an image of the temple; bazaar art, c.1980's; *another such view*

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A modern Orissan pata-chitra painting of the three temple deities

Source: http://www.shalincraft-india.com/folkpata.html
(Downloaded Nov. 2000)


"Jagannath in Padma Shringara," a modern Orissan pata-chitra

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(downloaded July 2005)


A traditional Orissan pata-chitra of the deities, from an excellent *review article*

Source: http://www.asianart.com/articles/patachitra/jagannath.html
(downloaded Oct. 2004)


My own favorite pata-chitra image

Source: http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/5725
(downloaded Jan. 2005)


A modern representation of the deities, from Poona

Source: http://www.poonabest.com/photofeature/yathra/1.htm
(downloaded Dec. 2004)


The three deities-- Jagannatha, his sister Subhadra, and Balarama-- who are worshipped in the temple

Source: http://www.vaisnava.cz/clanek_en.php3?no=175
(downloaded Oct. 2004)


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