Gods
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: Top row: The ten avataras of Vishnu (from left): Matsya; Kurma; Varaha; Narasimha; Vamana; Parashurama; Ramachandra; Krishna; Buddha; Kalki. On the extreme right: Kama riding on an elephant formed by nine girls, aims arrows at Rati. riding on a horse formed by five girls, at the opposite end of this row. Bottom row (from left): Rama wins Sita’s hand; Rama and Sita’s wedding; Arjuna shoots the matsya yantra (revolving fish target), thus winning Draupadi’s hand.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, fifth and sixth row from west
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: Top row: The ten avataras of Vishnu (from left): Matsya; Kurma; Varaha; Narasimha; Vamana; Parashurama; Ramachandra; Krishna; Buddha; Kalki. On the extreme right: Kama riding on an elephant formed by nine girls, aims arrows at Rati. riding on a horse formed by five girls, at the opposite end of this row. Bottom row (from left): Rama wins Sita’s hand; Rama and Sita’s wedding; Arjuna shoots the matsya yantra (revolving fish target), thus winning Draupadi’s hand.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, fifth and sixth rows from west
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: Top row (from left): Rama wins Sita’s hand; Rama and Sita’s wedding; Arjuna shoots the matsya yantra (revolving fish target), thus winning Draupadi’s hand.
Central row: Battle scenes involving chariots drawn by horses, bullocks and elephants, and infantry armed with muskets. Bottom row (from left): Krishna steals the clothes of the gopis; The Vidyaranya is taken in procession to the Virupaksha temple.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, sixth, seventh and eighth row from west
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: The wedding of Shiva and Parvati, detail: Tumburu, Narada and Bhairava (?), Vishnu and Sarasvati. Above the main scenes (left), kinnaras playing musical instruments and buildings inhabited by rishis (right). Below the main scenes: a dancer, two kettledrum and four trumpet players.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, second row from west
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: The wedding of Shiva and Parvati, detail. At the centre, Shiva and Parvati, her father Himavan giving her away. Immediately on the left, near Shiva is Brahma. On the right, behind Himavan, are Mena (?) and another female figure. Immediately above the divine couple, are Purushamriga (left); Surabhi (right) and in the corners kinnaras strew flowers on Shiva and Parvati. Beneath the main scene: Crouching Nandi, flanked by eight armed figures, possibly the dikpalas.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, second row from west
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: The wedding of Shiva and Parvati, detail; Three goddesses bearing trays; Bhringi, Adhikaranandi and Ganesha. Immediately above are kinnaras playing musical instruments and buildings inhabited by rishis. Below: Musicians playing trumpets and kettledrums, and a dancer.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, second row from west
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: Shiva as Tripurantaka. The god mounted on a chariot driven by Brahma, and whose wheels are the Sun and the Moon, destroys with a magic arrow, whose tip is Vishnu, the three aerial cities of the asuras. Mount Meru is his bow, and the serpent Vasuki is the bow’s string.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, fourth row from west
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: Kama, accompanied by his wife, Rati, and armed with a sugarcane bow and flower arrows, arrives on his parrot-drawn chariot near the spot where Shiva is steeped in meditation and disturbs him. The powerful flame which then issues from Shiva’s third eye incinerates him.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, fourth row from west
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: Rama, flanked by Janaka and Sita wins the archery contest. Two couples flank the main tableau. The seven rishis are shown in the vignettes on the left and the right. Celestial beings and rishis inhabit the five buildings at the top of the composition. Beneath the main scene is a lying figure, possibly Ravana. According to some re-tellings of the epic, he was among the princes present at the archery contest and fainted when Rama won.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, sixth register from west
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: Rama and Sita’s wedding. On the left Sita accompanied by Janaka and his wife, on the right Rama; Dasharatha and Kausalya. Flanking the main tableau, on the left are Vasishtha and Janaka’s court chaplain, Shatananda; on the right, one of Dasharatha’s other queens (?) and Vishvamitra. Rows of courtly figures and rishis in buildings enliven the upper portion of the composition. The lower part accommodates four male courtly figures and eight ascetics. Their different attires indicate the various orders they belong to.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, sixth row from west
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: Arjuna wins Draupadi’s hand. Flanked by Drupada and by Draupadi, Arjuna, standing on two spherical devices, aims at the matsya yantra (revolving fish target) by looking at its reflection in a cauldron of water, which, according to the tradition, was continuously stirred. To the left are three crowned male figures, possibly Arjuna’s brothers; Yudhishthira, Bhima and Nakula. On the right two male figures could be Sahadeva and Krishna, and an unidentified third person. The vignette on the right shows two deities, possibly Shiva and Vishnu; the one on the left, four crowned figures. The upper part of the panel is occupied by the rishis-in-buildings motif. The central part of the lower portion accommodates six ascetics in different attires indicating their different religious orders, and at the corners crowned male and female figures.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, sixth row from west
Date: First half of the 19th century
Description: Krishna steals the clothes of the gopis.
Location: Karnataka Temple;Virupaksha Temple;Hampi
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling, seventh row from west
« Previous 1 … 56 57 58 59 60 … 111 Next »