Also known askolamrangoli colours
On a full moon day, plaster the floor at the three Mahalakshmi door spots with desi cow dung and draw a rangoli with a small flower.
Rangoli colours
Floor at the N4, E3 and W4 spots
A water kalash with five mango leaves and a coconut, set on a cow-dung-plastered spot with rangoli at the Shikhi pad, with white mustard, yellow mustard or pukhraj added by need, makes the yogi Shikhi fulfil the wishes of the residents.
Rangoli
Shikhi pad, E1
Sprinkle a little water on the main door threshold every morning and make a rangoli to welcome the Sun. For a wrongly placed door, plaster the ground in front with cow dung daily and make the rangoli in the colour of that zone.
Rangoli colours matching the zone of the door
Main door threshold and the ground in front of it
The teacher left it to the students; their suggestions, a mango leaf swastik toran and a toran of cow-dung cakes, were both called correct. He then gave his best (Kohinoor) bandhanwar for any wrongly placed door: make round discs of desi cow dung, draw a swastik on each, fix them on a bandhanwar strip and hang it on the main door, and the defects end. The alternative, a daily desi cow-dung lepan in front of the main door with a rangoli in the colour of its zone, is hard to keep up every day, so the permanent bandhanwar is better.
Mandnas that contain a swastik or Om must never be made on the floor; mandnas are made on walls, while rangoli is made on the floor. Traditionally they were made with leaf juices; today use water-based paints, or make them on an MDF sheet or canvas, or print and frame them.