He wears a gold nose ring on one nostril, gold makara-ball earrings, and richly layered gold silk garments. In one hand, He wields a gold disc and in the other a silver conch, both suspended with gold silk. His forehead is crowned with a gold arch lined with leaf-like protrusions ending in makara motifs at the temples, above a gold forehead band studded with thin rectangular accents. Large gold squares adorn each corner of His forehead, while a thick teardrop-shaped ornament with a giant central diamond rests at its center. Most uniquely, His hands and feet are clad in gold.
Across cultures, Garuda takes on many forms; fully avian, a winged human, a beaked humanoid, or even complex chimeric hybrids. Yet in Odisha, his depiction is strikingly distinct. Here, Garuda appears as a yellow-skinned, fully human-bodied figure, marked by a face that remains largely human but is defined by an exceptionally sharp, dramatically hooked, bird-like nose. His features are further distinguished by a thin chin-strap beard and a finely styled moustache that curls sharply upward, deliberately separate, never merging with the beard. Completing this unique form are his powerful wings, giving him an identity that is neither wholly man nor bird, but something uniquely Odia in expression.
Moreover, Lord Jagannath, as Vishnu is depicted riding Garuda, as seen in His Gaja Uddharana Besha expression. In Lord Jagannath's Pati Dian expression, it is clear He has white hair, so by extension, His Vishnu expression also has white hair.
What makes this interpretation unique: He is huge. He has an open mouth with fangs. He has an angry expression. He has a clean and circular set of hair. He has what appears to be a circlet on his forehead that also serves as a hairband. In the centre, the circlet extends into a small hindu style crown. He has a thick twirled moustache. He has a thin chin beard. The beard and the moustache does not touch. Both his hands are holding exactly crescent-shaped objects. He is green.