Gods
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row (right): Royal weddings; (left) King Janaka seated on a throne; Bottom row (from left): Kaikeyi lying on her bed in the ‘sulking room’; Rama and Lakshmana take leave of Dasharatha and Kaikeyi.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row (from right); King Janaka, seated on a throne with Sita on his right thigh, orders Shiva’s bow to be carried into the hall; (left) Rama and Lakshmana standing: Bottom (from right) Rama, and Lakshmana take leave of Dasharatha and Kaikeyi. Barely visible: Rama Sita and Lakshmana taking leave of the queens (scene identified by a Telugu caption); The exiles depart on a chariot.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row (left): The arrival of Rishyashringa in Ayodhya, on the extreme right; King Dasharatha conversing with the rishis; Bottom row (right): Janaka, on whose left thigh sits Sita, orders Shiva’s bow to be carried into the hall.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
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 (left): Rama kills Tataka and, (right), protects the rishis’ yajna; Bottom row: The citizens of Ayodhya follow the exiles’ chariot (?).
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row: Rishyashringa performs the putrakameshti yajna (ritual for begetting a son); Agni emerges from the fire pit; Bottom row (left): Rama kills Tataka and protects the rishis’ yajna.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row (right): Rama kills Tataka (left) and frees Ahalya from her curse; Bottom row (right): A chariot (unclear); Rama, Sita and Lakshmana meet Guha (?).
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row (left) rubbed; Vishvamitra and his charges in the forest; A river. Bottom row: disappeared.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;Chennakeshava Temple;Somapalem
Positioning: Open mandapa, ceiling
Date: 16th century
Description: Top row (rubbed): Vishvamitra and his charges in the forest; Bottom row: disappeared.
Location: Andhra Pradesh Temple;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
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