Gods
Date: c. 1700
Description: Tatatakai defeats Varuna and Vayu. (TP 5)
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple;Madurai
Positioning: Kilikuttu mandapa, ceiling
Date: c. 1700
Description: Tatatakai defeats Indra and Agni. (TP 5)
Location: Tamil;Nadu Temple;Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple;Madurai
Positioning: Kilikuttu mandapa,ceiling:
Date: c. 1700
Description: Tatatakai defeats Yama and Nairriti. (TP 5)
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple;Madurai
Positioning: Kilikuttu mandapa, ceiling
Date: Paintings: 17th century
Description: Top row: Shiva enthroned on Mt Kailasa whose slopes are populated by yogis and celestials. On right, at the foot of the mountain is Narada. Bottom row: Shiva creates the Ganga water tank, Surya bathes in it and worships Shiva – the rays of light fall over the god’s image.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Vaidyanatha Temple;Srivilliputtur
Positioning: Mahamandapa, ceiling, west end
Date: Paintings: 17th century
Description: Top row: Shiva enthroned on Mt Kailasa whose slopes are populated by yogis and celestials. On right, at the foot of the mountain is Narada. Second row: Shiva creates the Ganga water tank, Surya bathes in it and worships Shiva – the rays of light fall over the god’s image. Bottom row: The Shiva linga among five trees created by the rays of the sun. Surya is depicted paying homage to the linga; Devi worships the linga; the Ganga temple tank.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Vaidyanatha Temple;Srivilliputtur
Positioning: Mahamandapa ceiling, west end
Date: Paintings: 17th century
Description: Rows: 1) and 2) Surya worships Shiva at Matavarvalakam. Row 3): The story of Durvasa. The ascetic Durvasa requests the boon of peace, Shiva tells him to descend to earth and to worship him. From right to left: Durvasa worships Shiva and Shivakami. He then performs penance for a very long time. The sage prostrated before the Shiva-linga and Shivakami (left); Row 4) Durvasa bathes in the temple tank; the next scene is damaged; Durvasa bathes in the temple tank and worships the Shiva linga.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Vaidyanatha Temple;Srivilliputtur
Positioning: Mahamandapa ceiling, west end
Date: Paintings: 17th century
Description: Rows 1) and 2): Durvasas worships Shiva at Matavarvalakam; Row 3): At Chidambaram, Shiva speaks to Vyaghrapada and Patanjali, telling them to woship him at Matavarvalakam.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Vaidyanatha Temple;Srivilliputtur
Positioning: Mahamandapa ceiling, west end
Date: Paintings: 17th century
Description: Top row (right): Vyaghrapada and Patanjali worshipping the linga; (left) Plan of the Chidambaram temple (?) Bottom row (left): Vyaghrapada and Patanjali worship Shiva at Matavarvalakam; (right): Shiva, dancing, standing on his left leg, appears before Vyaghrapada, Patanjali, Karaikkal
Ammaiyar and three other ascetics.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Vaidyanatha Temple;Srivilliputtur
Positioning: Mahamandapa ceiling, west end
Date: Paintings: 17th century
Description: Top: plan of the Chidambaram (?) temple. Bottom: Ascetics worship the linga and bathe in the temple tank.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Vaidyanatha Temple;Srivilliputtur
Positioning: Mahamandapa ceiling, west end
Date: Paintings: 17th century
Description: Ascetics worship the linga and bathe in the temple tank.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Vaidyanatha Temple;Srivilliputtur
Positioning: Mahamandapa ceiling, panel flanking the flag staff
Date: Paintings: 17th century
Description: Shiva dancing, standing on his left leg, appears before Vyaghrapada, Patanjali, Karaikkal Ammeiyar and three other ascetics.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Vaidyanatha Temple;Srivilliputtur
Positioning: Mahamandapa ceiling, panel flanking the flag staff
Date: Paintings: 17th century
Description: Plan of the Vaidyanatha temple: at the centre Shiva and two consorts, on the left the Shivalinga; on the right a standing image of the Devi. On the extreme right is the Vinayaka shrine, immediately beneath it, the Nalvar shrine.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Vaidyanatha Temple;Srivilliputtur
Positioning: Mahamandapa ceiling, immediately to the east of the flag staff
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