PANJURLI TAMIL NADU heavily inspired by Portuguese design

heavily inspired by Portuguese design is made  of wood and has been painted in fresh pink colour

books among many other things

the Sun God or the solar deity

It was Raja Ravi Varma who started painting Hindu deities with appropriate bodies

These dolls given as a part of wedding trousseau also are meant to initiate the new bride’s yearly  Golu celebration in her new home

PANJURLI TAMIL NADU heavily inspired by Portuguese designPANJURLI This magnificent collectible mask is of Panjurli. Panjurli is the divine spirit of a male wild boar worshipped as a part of Bhuta Kola. Panjurli in Tulu means a wild boar offspring. In Tululand many wild boars used to destroy cultivated crops of farmers and hence farmers started worshipping the spirits of wild boars. This was probably later absorbed in Hinduism through the following story. As per Paddanas the ancient Tulu oral literature,