Topography
Historical background
Particularly interesting are the schematic renderings of many temples. The deities are shown in their own shrines along with the typical natural features of the site, enabling thus the viewer to identify them.
Date: 17th century
Description: Top row: Manikkavachakar worships the three lingas at Chidambaram: Mulasthanam, Anantishvara, and Pulishvara. Bottom row: Manikkavachakar pays homage to Nataraja and Shivakami; He travels overseas to Lanka.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Nataraja Temple complex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, southernmost bay
Date: 17th century
Description: Top row: In Lanka Manikkavachakar engages into a religious dispute with the Buddhists. Bottom row: The Shaivas and the Buddhists engaged in discussion; The Buddhists sail to Chidambaram.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Nataraja Temple cpmplex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, southernmost bay
Date: 17th century
Description: Top row (damaged): The religious dispute between the Shaivas and the Buddhists; Bottom row, illegible.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Nataraja Temple complex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, southernmost bay
Date: 17th century
Description: Top row (damaged) Manikkavachakar gives the dumb daughter of the Chola king the power of speech. Bottom row, left (damaged): The killing of the Buddhists; Their hacked bodies are thrown in an oil press; (right) Manikkavachakar and his disciples.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Nataraja Temple complex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, southernmost bay
Date: 17th century
Description: Top row (partly disappeared). On the right: Manikkavachakar sings his poems and a Shaiva mendicant copies them. Bottom row (partly disappeared): The next morning, the priests open the Nataraja shrine and find the manuscript with the songs; Manikkavachakar explains to them the meaning of the songs.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Nataraja Temple complex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, southernmost bay
Date: 17th century
Description: Manikkavachakar enters the sanctuary and, under the eyes of the priests, merges into Shiva Nataraja.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Nataraja Temple complex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, southernmost bay
Date: 17th century
Description: Worship of Nataraja in the Chit Sabha; the Shivaganga tank, on the right, devotees.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Nataraja Temple complex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, southernmost bay
Date: 17th century
Description: Top row( from left to right): Nataraja and Shivakami enshrined in the Chit Sabha (disappeared), opposite which a dancer and musicians are performing while Tunmata looks on; The next scene depicts a Brahmin trying to persuade Tunmata, who has been seized by a soldier, to mend his ways. Two ladies and a donkey carry the booty of his robberies. Bottom row: Tunmata bends down to touch a snake, he is bitten: Yama’s servants seize him. On the left: Shiva’s ganas attack Yama’s servants.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Nataraja Temple complex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, second bay from the south
Date: 17th century
Description: Top row: (from left) the servants of Yama report to him; Chitragupta examines Tunmata’s records, which are correct. Yama on his buffalo rides to Shiva on Kailasa to complain: because Tunmata has seen Nataraja in the Chit Sabha, his sins are forgiven. Bottom row: Cheraman Perumal in a palanquin accompanied by a vast retinue travels to Chidambaram.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Nataraja Temple complex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, second bay from the south
Date: 17th century
Description: Top row: Cheraman Perumal on his elephant (?); unidentified incident, probably a robbery; The king worships Nataraja and Shivakami. Bottom row: pilgrims bathe in the Shivaganga tank; A street with people engaged in various activities.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Nataraja Temple complex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, second bay from south
Date: 17th century
Description: Top row: Worship at various shrines in the Chidambaram temple; Bottom row: Preparation of food to be distributed to the pilgrims.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Nataraja Temple complex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, second bay from the south
Date: 17th century
Description: Top row: Pilgrims worshipping Shiva and Parvati on Mount Kailasa; the ten tirthas at Chidambaram; Bottom row: Vyaghrapada (?), Patanjali, Brahma,
and Bhadrakali (?) worshipping the Mulasthanam (?).
Location: Tamil NaduTemple;Nataraja Temple complex;Chidambaram
Positioning: Shivakamasundari shrine; open mandapa, second bay from the south
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