Gods
Date: 18th century
Description: Top row 5 ctd. (from left): After a fierce fight against Indrajit and his followers, Hanuman is taken captive before Ravana; He sits on his coiled tail on Ravana’s throne; Bottom row 6 (from right): Incensed at Hanuman’s impertinent behaviour, Ravana orders Hanuman’s tail to be set ablaze; Hanuman, then, sets fire to Lanka before flying back to the mainland.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, east corridor, ceiling
Date: 18th century
Description: Top row 7 (from left): The monkeys revel in the Madhuvana celebrating Hanuman’s return; Bottom row 8 (from right): Ravana consults his ministers; His brother, Vibhishana, and two further rakshasas defect to Rama; They fly to Rama’s camp; The monkeys, uncertain about their intentions wait for them armed with trees.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, east corridor, ceiling
Date: 18th century
Description: Top row 7 ctd. (from left): Hanuman accompanied by Sugriva reports to Rama and Lakshmana; Hanuman talks to his companions and all together they follow Rama seated on his shoulders; Bottom row 8 ctd.(from right): Rama in council; In Lanka, Ravana consults his ministers.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, east corridor, ceiling
Date: 18th century
Description: Top row 9 (from left): Vibhishana prostrates before Rama and Lakshmana; He is consecrated king of Lanka by Lakshmana and Sugriva; Vibhishana and Lakshmana, carried in a palanquin, reach the shore of the ocean where Rama lies on a couch of darbha grass. Bottom row 10 ctd. (from right): Having built the causeway, the troops cross the ocean; Rama and Lakshmana direct the attack on Lanka from a hill; Ravana watches the action from atop a gopura; Sugriva jumps on him and steals his crown; Ravana, shocked, descends from the gopura.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, east corridor, ceiling
Date: 18th century
Description: Top row 9 ctd. (from left): Lakshmana and Vibhishana, carried in a palanquin, reach the shore of the ocean where Rama lies on a bed of darbha grass to propitiate Sagara, the god of the ocean; Sagara does not appear; Rama threatens him with the Agni-astra (fire-weapon); Sagara then appears along with his wives and prostrates before Rama; The monkeys headed by Hanuman, prepare to build the bridge to Lanka. Bottom row 10 (from right): Under Rama’s and Sugriva’s direction they build the bridge.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, east corridor, ceiling
Description: Top row 10 ctd. (from right): Having built the bridge, the troops cross the strait; From a hill Rama and Lakshmana direct the attack on Lanka; Ravana watches the action from atop a gopura; Sugriva jumps on him and steals his crown; Ravana, shocked, descends from the gopura; Bottom row 11 (from left): Sugriva brings Ravana’s crown to Rama; Rama, Lakshmana, Jambavan and Vibhishana send Angada on a diplomatic mission to Ravana; Angada at Ravana’s presence.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, east corridor, ceiling
Date: 18th century
Description: Top row 10 (from right): The monkeys build the bridge to Lanka under the direction of Rama, Lakshmana, Sugriva and Jambavan; Bottom row 11 ctd. (from left): Angada at Ravana’s presence sits on his coiled tail; He returns to Rama, Lakshmana and Vibhishana to report the failure of his mission; The troops on the move.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, east corridor, ceiling
Date: 18th century
Description: Top row 12 ctd. (from right): Ravana enters the battlefield. Lakshmana on Hanuman’s shoulders fights against Ravana, is wounded, but is saved by Hanuman. Bottom row 13 (from left): Lakshmana is revived, and seated on Hanuman’s shoulders, resumes the fight against Ravana.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, east corridor, ceiling
Description: Top row 12 (from right): Rama’s troops attack Ravana’s fortress; Angada drags by the hair Ravana’s wife, Mandodari, in the assembly hall; Ravana enters the battlefield on his chariot; Bottom row 13 ctd. (from left): Rama, seated on Hanuman’s shoulders shoots arrows at Ravana but his limbs regenerate; Hanuman, and then Sugriva, fight bare handed against Ravana, who succumbs to Sugriva’s punches and is rescued by two rakshasas.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, east corridor, ceiling
Date: 18th century, partly obliterated by whitewash
Description: Top row 13 (from left): Hanuman flies back to Rama where Lakshmana is recovering; Lakshmana, seated on Hanuman’s shoulders resumes the fight against Ravana; Rama, then, enters the fray and, seated on Hanuman’s shoulders, attacks Ravana. Bottom row 14 ctd. (from right): Ravana’s brother Kumbhakarna is aroused from his sleep and after having eaten he talks to Ravana.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, east corridor, ceiling
Date: 18th century, partly obliterated by whitewash
Description: Top row 13 ctd. (from left): Rama, seated on Hanuman’s shoulders shoots arrows at Ravana, but his limbs regenerate Hanuman and then Sugriva barehanded fight against Ravana; He succumbs to Sugriva’s punches and is rescued by two rakshasas; Bottom row 14 (from right): Ravana decides to consult his brother Kumbhakarna; Sugriva talks to Rama and Lakshmana; in Lanka scores of men and animals trample upon the huge body of the sleeping Kumbhakarna, waking him up, eventually.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, east corridor, ceiling
Date: 18th century
Description: Lakshmana mutilates Ayomukhi. The princes sever Kabandha’s arms.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temples;Kallalagar Temple complex;Alagar Koyil
Positioning: Vasanta mandapa, north wall
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