Ramayana Ganjapa from Sonepur

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Title (dcterms:title): Ramayana Ganjapa from Sonepur
Description (dcterms:description): The images here showcase Ramayana Ganjifa or Ganjapa by Satyanarayan Maharana of Ghoraghatpura, one of the last remaining artists of Sonepur Ganjifa cards at Odisha. His family has been involved in making Ganjifa cards for generations and he has learnt the art from his father. His wife, Umavati Maharana is also an artist who makes Ganjifa cards. They are additionally artists who make patachitra paintings as well. Ganjifa cards are hand painted cards made out of cotton cloth, tamarind seed powder and khari mati (chalky soil). After the base of the cards are prepared, they are painted. While there are variants like Navagunjara, Ashtamala, Satyanarayan Maharana mainly makes Ramayana painted Ganjapa cards.
Satyanarayan Maharana mainly makes Ramayana painted Ganjapa cards. Ramayana painted Ganjapa cards consists of a set of 144 cards, comprising of 12 suits, with 12 cards in each suit and requires 4 players. Ram has 6 suits namely, Ram, Lakshman, Makar (team of monkey), Bhalu (jambuban), Parvat and Bibhishan. Ravana’s team also comprises of 6 suits namely, Ravana, Kunt, Katari,Sul, Pasho and Khanda. Every suit has a king card, a vizier card, an Ace and numbered cards from 2 to 10, 2 being highest and 10 being lowest. The numbered cards have unique symbols drawn on them and the number of symbols drawn signifies the number of the card. While playing, once the cards are randomly distributed, the player who receives the Ram card and the player sitting opposite to him belongs to the Ram lobby, making the other two players part of Ravana’s lobby.
Alternative Title (dcterms:alternative): Ganjifa
Rules (dcterms:instructionalMethod): The exact rules of the game is still unknown to us.
Creator (dcterms:creator): Sneha Bhattacharya- Banglanatakdotcom
Source (dcterms:source): Sneha Bhattacharya- Banglanatakdotcom
Contributor (dcterms:contributor): Sneha Bhattacharya- Banglanatakdotcom
Rights (dcterms:rights): Banglanatakdotcom
Format (dcterms:format): Playing Cards
References (dcterms:references): Splendours of Ganjifa Art published by Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath 2019; Ganjifa Cards
Medium (dcterms:medium): Ganjifa on text
Spatial Coverage (dcterms:spatial): Sonepur, Odisha
Variants (dcterms:isVersionOf): Ganjifa, Ganjapa, Dashavatar cards
Tags (dcterms:conformsTo): Ganjifa; Ramayana

Media: Subarnapur Ganjifa 5.JPG; Subarnapur Ganjifa 3.JPG; Subarnapur Ganjifa 1.JPG; Subarnapur Ganjifa 7.JPG

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