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Dhanalakota Vaikuntam Nakash (b. 1942)

Cheriyal Nakashi family patriarch in Telangana safeguarding forty-foot vermilion-ground caste-purana narrative scrolls.

Telangana Nakashi scroll painter working on a crimson-ground Cheriyal khadi scroll

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Telangana Nakashi scroll painter working on a crimson-ground Cheriyal khadi scroll
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Leading his hereditary Nakash workshop in Cheriyal village of Siddipet district, Telangana, Dhanalakota Vaikuntam preserved the multi-coat tamarind-paste, river-clay, and boiled-chalk priming required before laying down Cheriyal's unmistakable scarlet-vermilion background. 1

Commissioned historically by itinerant Mandapalli, Goud, and Padmashali balladeers to illustrate Markandeya and Goudapuranam recitals, his family studio trained a new generation of scroll and saw-dust mask painters, earning the National Handicrafts Award. 1

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Cheriyal Nakashi Narrative Scroll Painting
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Cheriyal Paintings — Geographical Indications DossierMinistry of Commerce and Industry, India, 2008—
"Dhanalakota Vaikuntam Nakash (b. 1942)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/dhanalakota-vaikuntam · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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