DESIGN BRIEF: The layout problem was not how to draw a school bus inside a decorative Madhubani frame — it was how a yellow rural transit vehicle reads as Mithila subject matter without collapsing into clip-art or breaking Bharni contour discipline. Horizontal-bilateral symmetry solves it: the bus sits on a vertical centre axis like a Kohbar wedding cart, with mirrored peacock guardians above and below so the modern vehicle inherits classical bird-frame grammar instead of floating as an isolated silhouette. Bharni flat fill carries the yellow body, red bunting, and lotus side panels because poster-distance legibility needs solids bounded by bold double outlines; Kachni hatching stays reserved for peacock feather eyes, water wave bands, arch infill, and petal interiors where line density can whisper. Child passengers appear only as black window silhouettes — eight ponytail profiles, no named faces — matching Mithila's tendency toward typified figures rather than portrait realism. The open-book border alternation anchors rural education theme in the frame lattice itself, pairing with the fish pond below where matsya abundance grammar meets the school-route narrative.