Glossary
Pichwai
Also written · pichhwai
What is Pichwai?
A pichwai is a painted or embroidered cloth hung behind the image of Shrinathji in Vallabhacharya temples, above all at Nathdwara in Rajasthan. It changes with the festival calendar and the season, so a temple keeps many. Cows, lotus ponds and the gopis recur, and the deity is shown frontally with one arm raised.
Objects catalogued under this term
No object in the published catalogue carries this term yet. The catalogue is being written object by object.