Ganjifa Cards - Artist Maïa Saint-Couleurs
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Ganjifa Cards

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Dashavatara Ganjifa Cards Ganjifa Card Rama 1 Ganjifa Card Rama 2 Ganjifa Card Rama 3 Baladeva Ganjifa Card Subhadra Ganjifa Card Jagannatha Ganjifa Card
Materials

Acrylic colors on watercolor paper

Diameter

Each card 12 cm - 4.7 in

Date

March 31, 2023

Category
Other
Tags
card game, dashavatara, ganjifa, jagannatha
About This Project
Ganjifa is an ancient card game of India. Some say it came from Persia, but even before Moghuls there were card games in ancient India. I love that these cards are round shaped! A deck of Dashavatara (10 incarnations of Lord Vishnu) cards contains 120 elaborately painted cards, so for the trained traditional artists it takes at least a few weeks to hand paint a full set. I have made a few number cards here, featuring the bow of Lord Ramchandra – one of the 10 avataras of Vishnu.
I am also working on a set of Jagannatha Ganjifa cards, and you can see some of them here.