Gods
Date: Paintings, 18th century
Description: From top to bottom 1) The royal party is ferried across a river and visit Bharadvaja’s hermitage; 2) On arrival in the forest they meet two Nishadhas (?); They discard their finery (unclear) 3) Disappeared.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, ceiling, west side colonnade, lintel
Date: Paintings, 18th century
Description: From top to bottom: 1) and 2) Fragments: The Ayodhya party – the queens travel in closed palanquins – arrives at Bharadvaja’s (?) hermitage; 3) Damaged.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, ceiling, west colonnade, lintel
Date: Paintings, 18th century
Description: Top (upside down): Fragments: Rama, Sita and Lakshmana in the forest; Bottom: Rama and Lakshmana hunt in the forest.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara;Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, celing, east colonnade, lintel
Date: Paintings, 18th century
Description: Top row, upside down: The court returns to Ayodhya after visiting the exiles on Mount Chitrakuta; Second row, from left: Bharata places Rama’ s sandals on the throne; Bharata and Shatrughna confer with Vasishtha; In the meantime the exiles leave Mount Chitrakuta. Third row: The meeting of the exiles with Atri and Anasuya; Anasuya gives some gifts to Sita, among which an ointment which will maintain her beauty forever. The exiles resume their journey.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, ceiling, east colonnade, lintel
Date: Paintings, 18th century
Description: Top row (upside down); Viradha abducts Sita; Second row: (from left) Rama kills Viradha and rescues Sita; Freed from his curse, his soul ascends to heaven; Rama, Sita and Lakshmana resume their journey; Third row from right: They arrive at Sharabhanga’s hermitage. Sharabhanga refuses to go to heaven with Indra before having met Rama. The rest of the panel has disappeared. The surviving fragment shows Rama, Sita and Lakshmana prostrating.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, ceiling, east colonnade, lintel
Date: Paintings, 18th century
Description: Top panel (upside down) almost completely disappeared. The flame on the right, may suggest that the scene represented Sharabhanga entering the fire and ascending to heaven. Second row; The exiles visit various ascetics; Third row: In the course of their wanderings, the exiles meet Agastya who gives Rama some magical weapons.
Agastyand 3) the exiles meet various sages
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara;Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, ceiling, east colonnade, lintel
Date: Paintings, 18th century
Description: Top row, upside down (damaged). Probably it depicted the arrival of Shurpanakha to Rama and Sita’s hut. Second row: The mutilation of Shurpanakha (almost totally disappered). Third row: Shurpanaka reports to Trishiras, Khara and Doshana.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, ceiling, east colonnade, lintel
Date: Paintings, 18th century
Description: From bottom to top; 1) Ravana talks to Maricha. 2) Rama chases the golden deer in the forest; 3) Lakshmana leaves Sita alone in the hut to join Rama. Ravana appears at her door in the guise of a mendicant.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, ceiling, east colonnade, lintel
Date: Paintings, 18th century
Description: From bottom to top: 1) Ravana abducts Sita and Jatayu attacks his chariot. 2) Rama and Lakshmana find the empty hut and and, on the left, unidentified scene. 3) Ravana’s chariot in pieces and its driver dismembered; Rama and Lakshmana find the dying Jatayu, perform the last rites and cremate him.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara;Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, ceiling, east colonnade, lintel
Date: Paintings, 18th century
Description: Borrom row: Rama and Lakshmana kill Kabandha; Shabari prostrates before the princes.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, ceiling, east colonnade, lintel
Date: Paintings; late 18th early 19th century
Description: Hanuman allows Indrajit to capture him after a fierce battle and, once at the presence of Ravana, sits on his coiled tail. A number of scenes have disappeared. The scene in the last row, now severely damaged, may have shown the rakshasas setting Hanuman’s tail on fire.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, ceiling, east bay
Date: Paintings; late 18th early 19th century
Description: After meeting Sita in the ashoka vana, Hanuman wreaks the garden and engages in a fight with the guards.
Location: Tamil Nadu Temple;Tirugokarneshvara Brihadambal Temple;Pudukottai
Positioning: Entrance mandapa, ceiling, east bay
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