About this stamp
On the Stamp
The wooden mask of Narasimha, the man-lion, richly coloured and jewelled, on a ₹1 stamp.
Narasimha
India Post issued four stamps and a miniature sheet on 15 April 1974 on Indian masks. Three of them, the Sun, the Moon and Ravana, are papier-mâché masks worn in the Ramlila at Ramnagar near Banaras at Dussehra; the fourth, Narasimha, is the wooden mask of the Bhagavata Mela of South India. In the Bhagavata Mela, when the story of the child devotee Prahlada is played, the actor who takes the part of Narasimha, slayer of the demon king Hiranyakashipu, wears this mask. It is itself venerated: when not in use it is kept in the temple and worshipped daily. This text draws on India Post’s folder for the issue.
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