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A ₹100 miniature sheet holding the pichwai stamp of the cosmic form of the creator.
The Mahabharat in Indian Art
India Post issued eighteen stamps on the Mahabharat on 27 November 2017, in a ₹430 sheetlet holding all eighteen, with the ₹50 and ₹100 stamps also in miniature sheets of their own. The stamps show how the epic has been told in the art of different parts of India: a Rajasthani pichwai, a painting by Raja Ravi Varma, a leather shadow puppet, a patachitra scroll, Mughal miniatures from Persian translations, illustrated manuscripts, stone reliefs at Halebidu and Mahabalipuram, Kalamkari, and five pictures from the 1,200-metre scroll of the Adi Parva painted by Santok Ba, a folk artist of central India, now kept at the IGNCA in Delhi. They were designed by Bharti Mirchandani from inputs by Lakshmikanta Dash, Meena Mani and Santok Ba; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 5 lakh of the sheetlet and of each miniature sheet.
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