Chitrakar
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Chitrakar (Devanagari: चित्रकार) is a caste within the Newar community of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The Newar caste system is divided according to profession. Accordingly, Chitrakars were painters and mask makers.[1]
In Nepal Bhasa (the language of the Newar community), this caste is called "pun" (पुं).[2] or "puna".[3]
The literal translation of the word "chitrakar" from Sanskrit is ‘image maker’, where "chitrá" in Sanskrit means ‘an image‘’, and "kara" ‘the maker’.[4]