Bishnupur Naksh/Naqsh Cards

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Title (dcterms:title): Bishnupur Naksh/Naqsh Cards
Description (dcterms:description): Naksh/ Naqsh is a variant of Ganjifa cards. It contains a total of forty eight cards. It comprises of four identical series pf 12 cards. Each has a mir on an elephant called sahib, the wazir on horseback called bibi and 10 numeral cards with designs derived from Mughal and Dashavatar Ganjifas. The suits are Saheb or riders on an elephant, Bibi or ghori or horsemen, Shankha or conch, Pahalwan or wrestlers, Pori or girl under tree, lotus bud, Dawal or swords, rectangular flowers, circular red flowers, red flowers on a stem, white round flowers and lotus flowers on stems.
Rules (dcterms:instructionalMethod): Adrija Mukherjee interviewed Bansari Fouzdar regarding the rules of the game.

Interviewer: Do you have the full set of Naksha? Can you tell me how is it played?
Bansari Fouzdar: Naksha, as I mentioned is a 17 pointer game. So it is played by 4 people who have 12 cards each with them. 12 and 4 multiplies to 48 cards. Coming to the cards, there is one where a woman is standing holding a tree branch which is one phota (point?). Two points are two wrestlers, wrestling. Then there is one where a person is horse riding which is 11 points. Then there is also another where two people are riding at the back of an elephant while there is also a cheetah underneath the elephant’s foot which adds up to 12 points. These last two adds up the highest points while 1 to 10 there are many other cards, like sankh adds 4 points. So whoever reaches 17 points wins the game. If someone has two of the elephant cards they win, same goes for the card with the man with the horse. But minimum of 17 points is required.
Creator (dcterms:creator): Bansari Fouzdar
Source (dcterms:source): Adrija Mukherjee
Date Created (dcterms:created): December 2024
Format (dcterms:format): Playing Cards
Medium (dcterms:medium): Cotton cloth and tamarind powder; organic paint; lac / resin on the reverse. Diameter: 4.5 inches.
Provenance (dcterms:provenance): Gautam Sen Memorial Boardgames Museum
Spatial Coverage (dcterms:spatial): Bishnupur, Bankura, West Bengal
Variants (dcterms:isVersionOf): Dashavatar Cards; Ramayana Ganjapa from Sonepur; Playing Sawantwadi Ganjifa; Raja (King) and Mantri (Vizier) card; Dashavatar Ganjifa Card, Raghurajpur; Mysore Chhad Ganjifa; Navagunjara Ganjifa Card, Raghurajpur; Bishnupur Naksh/Naqsh Cards
Tags (dcterms:conformsTo): Ganjifa; Bishnupur; West Bengal

Item sets: Ganjifa Cards

Media: Naksh cards from Bishnupur

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