Chitrakar
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chitrakar-247-15596874
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Chitrakar
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Chitrakar is a caste within the Newar community of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The Newar caste system is divided according to profession. Accordingly, Chitrakars were painters and mask makers. In Nepal Bhasa, this caste is called "pun" (पुं).
or "puna". The literal translation of the word "chitrakar" from Sanskrit is ‘image maker’, where "chitrá" in Sanskrit means ‘an image‘’, and "kara" ‘the maker’.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitrakar
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2024-03-24T14:21:38Z
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{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Green_tara_1947_wk.jpg","width":1500,"height":1900}
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