Bharata Playing Cards
Bharata Playing Cards - Series 2, based on Indian folk art, published by Sunish Chabba, 2018.
Bharata Playing Cards - series 2 - by Sunish Chabba & Ishan Trivedi evoke the kings, queens and warriors from the stories of the Mahabharata, the epic Sanskrit poem from India.
The court cards are presented in the sensitive and refined style of Kishangarh paintings.
Combining these with the Bharata tarot makes a full 78 tarot deck but these cards can be used separately.
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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