BHOPAL: The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya has chosen Navagunjara – a wooden effigy with highly intricate motifs from Orissa – as the exhibit of the month for October.
The artifact, on display in the indoor exhibition building Veethi Sankul, was inaugurated by Jitendra Agrawal, PCCF, wildlife of the government of MP. He explained the local mythological tales behind the idea of Navagunjara and said “Nature has nine strengths and Navagunjara is accumulated form of all nine powers”.
