Mere Khayal,Meri Zubani: 2012

ख़ुशी है मुझे कि मेरी मौत का किसी को गम नहीं

ख़ुशी है मुझे कि मेरे जाने से किसी की आँखे नम नहीं

ख़ुशी है मुझे कि मेरे विदा होने पे कोई नहीं

ख़ुशी है मुझे कि किसी ने आज कुछ भी खोया नहीं

ख़ुशी है मुझे कि मेरी याद किसी को न आएगी

ख़ुशी है मुझे कि इक रात के साथ ये बात भी बीत जाएगी ....

"SANJHI" ; The Reflection of True Love

'Sanjhi' is a word derived from words like "Sajja', "Shringar' and"Sajavat" which all means 'decoration'.Sanjhi's other meaning is "Sanjh" means evening so this art is practised in the evening .Sanjhi is made for the pleasure of Krishna's eyes. This art form is rooted in the folk culture of Braj (Area nearby vrindavan). It was taken to its glory by the Vaishnava temples in the 15 th and 16 th century. Sanjhi came to be regarded as a highly refined art form practiced by the Brahmin

priests. Presently, the art of Sanjhi painting is practiced by only a select few and remains a living tradition only in some of the temples of India. One of these temples where Sanjhi painting still survives is the Radharamana temple of Vrindavan. According to mythology, "Radha" : Krishna's beloved, used to paint her walls with Sanjhi art to attract her beloved's attention. She used colored stones, metal foils and flowers to paint the walls plastered with cow dung . Seeing her, other Gopis of Vrindavan also started painting walls with Sanjhi art to attract Krishna.The folk art of Sanjhi has been performed and established by shri Radha for her lord Krishna.Sanjhi is not an art it's a true feeling of shri Radha which she drown on the floor with different colors, when Krishna left vrindavan, Radhaji wants Krishna's physical presence,and she recreates the sanjhi to show her love and anguish through this art. The larger Sanjhi designs are made on a raised earthen platform at least a metre in diameter and having the shape of a hexagon, octagon, lotus, or six-or eight pointed star. Brsides a central panel, usually depicting an incident in the life of Krsna, there may be smaller panels with subsidiary scenes in them. These panels are surrounded by a lattice work of borders with floral pattterns. The whole design framed by a narrow decorative border and the slopes of the platform are decorated with sprinkled powder.The sanjhi artist takes severalhours to prepare a design and pride themselves in the intricacy with which the border are interwoven to form complicated patterns.In some temples may being their series of designs by arranging a decorative border of flowers around a painting or picture for the days preceding the eleventh lunar day (Ekadashi) and then change to the use of coloured powders.

In the big temples of Braja like Radha Raman temple in Vrindavan, the making of sanjhi with coloured powders has been developed into an intricate and painstaking craft. After Dwapar yuga in the ancient time this art used in various forms like Flower sanjhi, Cow dunk sanjhi ,Under water sanjhi ,Above water sanjhi, Dry color sanjhi, Color stone and metal foil sanjhi, which were used to be made on the wall. At present time in Brij you can find the dry color sanjhi,under water sanjhi,above water sanjhi and flower sanjhi. You can find the cow dunk sanjhi in the interior areas of braj. This art form is on the path of extinction. Presently we cannot find much artist of dry color sanjhi art.Actually this art form is very difficult to make, it is totaly based on the geometrical form and it takes too much time to be made.It's too much laborious and expensive. Its an extinct art. The temples have abandoned the practice as being too costly and laborious, or simply because only few people know how to make sanjhi .

This article is just an endeavor to share the glory of this folk and traditional "sanjhi art" of brij.

SOME PICTURES OF SANJHI AT RADHARAMAN TEMPLE VRINDAVAN

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