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: 16th century
Description: Top row (left): Vishvamitra seated, Rama and Lakshmana standing, watch Shiva’s bow being carried into the hall. To the extreme right, Janaka and Sita; Bottom row (right): The exiles take leave from the queens and proceed to the forest.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row: The arrival of Rishyashringa in Ayodhya; Bottom row; Vishvamitra seated, Rama and Lakshmana standing, watch Shiva’s bow being carried into the hall. To the extreme right, Janaka with Sita sieated on his thigh.
Location: Andhra PradeshTemple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row (right): Palace scene: the queens and their babies; Bottom row (from left): Vishvamitra and his charges in the forest; Ahalya is freed from her curse.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row (from right): Rishyashringa gives the vessel containing the payasa to Dasharatha; The
queens partake of the sweet; The queens with their babies in their apartments. Bottom row (from left) Vishvamitra and his charges go to the forest; Ahalya is freed from her curse; Rama kills Tataka.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top (from right): Agni emerges from the sacrificial fire during the putrakameshti yajna (ritual for obtaining a son); Rishyashringa hands the vessel with the payasa to Dasharatha (disappeared); Bottom row (from left): Rama kills Tataka at Vishvamitra’s behest, and then protects the rishi’s yajna.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Description: Top row: Ravana addresses Sita held captive in the ashokavana.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Date: 16th century
Description: Top: Ravana in his palace.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row (left): Rama and Sita (?) in a chariot surrounded by their allies and other figures.
Bottom row: Sita, escorted by Vibhishana is carried in a palanquin at the presence of Rama and Lakshmana.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row; Fragments of figures; Bottom row: Escorted by Vibhishana, Sita joins Rama, Lakshmana and their allies. The rest of the scene has disappeared.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Rama, Sita and Lakshmana take leave of the queens before going into exile.
Location: Andhra Pradesh temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: (From left): Rama receives the magic weapons from Vishvamitra; Vishvamitra, seated on a throne, and the princes at the court of Janaka.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row: The arrival of Rishyashringa in Ayodhya: Bottom row: Rama receives the magic weapons
from Vishvamitra; Vishvamitra, seated on a throne, and the princes at the court of Janaka.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
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