The brief was the Ganga Dussehra lattice: the diagram a Kumaoni woman draws to honour the descent of the Ganga, here built as a cross of dotted channels meeting at a central lotus. The four stepped arms read like channels of water filled with fingertip dots, and where they cross a lotus rosette opens — the still point of the flow. Conch shells and lotuses tuck into the diagonal pockets, the auspicious river vocabulary of the rite. The fourfold rotation lets the cross sit the same from any side, which suits a festival of falling, gathering water. Medium-light fill keeps the channels and central rosette legible with geru breathing between the arms. White biswar on geru, nothing else.