Design facts
- Dot grid
- 7 to 3 dots — tapering from 7 dots across the middle down to 3
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Motif
- Diya
- Video
- 8 min 7 s, uploaded 31 October 2020
- Views
- 2.2 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Pandaga Muggulu Beautiful Deepam
- Mark the 7-to-3 dot grid.
- In the centre draw a diamond and place a small flower inside it.
- Outside each of the diamond's four sides draw a spiral curl wrapped in a curved stem.
- Above, below, left and right of the diamond draw four diyas — a wide lamp bowl with a pointed teardrop flame facing outward.
- Decorate each diya bowl with an arc of small dots and short lines.
- On each of the four diagonals draw a flower with a spiral centre and rounded petals, flanked by two filled leaves.
- Finish each diagonal flower with a sprig of dotted buds on its outer side.
Further reading
- Venkatraman Gopalan & Brian K. VanLeeuwen, “A topological approach to creating any pulli kolam, an artform from South India”, Forma 30, 35–41 (2015). doi:10.5047/forma.2015.005
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