The translation problem was stillness: a reading room is silent, undramatic, but shrine-cloth grammar can honour that calm by enthroning a book-bearing goddess on her lion at the centre, an open book and lotus among her hands, while the panels record readers bent over their books at long shared tables, shelves of spines behind, pendant lamps hung between. Framed this way, study itself becomes devotion, the goddess of knowledge presiding over patient learning. The Vaghri (Devipujak) community of Ahmedabad, long kept from temple sanctums, painted the Mother onto cloth to carry their shrine with them; the free reading room draws students and elders alike, and here that quiet civic place is given a goddess. Madder red, iron-rust black, undyed cream: nothing else, because the limited natural-dye triad is the entire discipline.