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Ritualization of Space and Body in Mithila Folk Arts
2022
SIRJANĀ – A Journal on Arts and Art Education
This paper revisits the process of formation and ritualistic differentiation of the space of Kohbar and Aripana patterns traditionally painted on the mud walls of honeymoon chamber and the yards for pujas respectively. Kohbar and Aripana are the most celebrated folk art performances in the Mithila region of Nepal (and also in the Madhuvani District of Northern India). Kohbars are the ritualistic invocation through painted diagrams of kamala daha (seven-lotus pond motif) and several symbols of
doi:10.3126/sirjana.v8i1.46655
fatcat:5zxqnuqqazcehd4y46ck2ohvna