DESIGN BRIEF: a combine harvester is the wrong shape for a portrait Madhubani panel until you treat it as a horizontal field band problem, not a vehicle poster. Bharni was the right style because the translation needs flat mustard and terracotta fills for cab, header, and auger while the cream ground still carries Kachni-grade hatching between motifs — you cannot render chrome; you render pigment. Horizontal bilateral symmetry solves the layout: the machine sits on a central spine with wheat stalks forming a readable crop band beneath, sunflower and lotus anchoring top and bottom registers so the eye reads agrarian cycle before it reads diesel. I simplified mechanical joints to folk contour — windows become rectangular cells, tyres become hatch-filled disks, auger segments become tube repeats — but kept header width and cab proportion honest so a Punjab viewer recognises the machine. The tractor frieze along the bottom border is deliberate redundancy: classical Mithila harvest panels show labour and grain; this fusion lets the frame carry the same message in miniature while the hero combine handles scale.