Art & Culture

The palm-leaf is an ancient record of Odisha. It contains, Mantra, yantra, tantra, religion, architecture, medicine, astrology, astronomy, grammar details of war arms and armoury, geography, trade routes, occult practices, temple rituals, crafts, literature and so on. This leaf- speaks about every aspect of the life of Odian culture and livelihood. Everything that the Odisha alphabets have no headmarks like that of Bengali or Nagari script, can safely be attributed to the long and continuous practice of writing on palm leaves. The stones of the Konark, Mukteswar and Rajarani temples…