By PTI
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida, who’s on an official go to to India, a ‘Krishna Pankhi’, a sandalwood artefact made in Rajasthan with intricate work with its home windows depicting totally different poses of Lord Krishna, epitomising love, compassion and tenderness.
Sharing particulars, official sources famous that the ‘Pankhi’ is intricately carved with conventional instruments and has a hand carved peacock determine at high, India’s nationwide hen.
It has a small ‘ghungaroo’ (small conventional bells) on its edges which transfer with the circulate of wind and has 4 hid home windows with extra intricate carvings inside.
The intricate carving on the sandalwood is completed with precision by grasp artisans in Churu in Rajasthan, who carve the already spectacular sandalwood artefact into an exquisite and stylish masterpiece of artwork.
This artefact is product of pure sandalwood, which grows primarily within the forests of southern components of India. It has hand carving together with a conventional ‘jali’ designs.
Sandalwood is understood for its distinctive perfume that has been extremely valued for hundreds of years because it stays for many years.
In India, the sandalwood can also be used as a worship materials and for its medicinal properties.
