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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/2/9/7
Title:: Rama fighting with Ravana's army by sitting on the shoulders of Hanuman
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 TIFF image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/2/9/10
Title:: Rama in the middle and the monkey battalion fighting with Ravana's Rakshasa army
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 TIFF image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/3
Title:: Natham-Kovilpatti Siva Kailasanatha temple
Scope & Content:: The Siva as well as the Goddess temple ceilings has the painted murals. The paintings are in extinct condition and peeling off due to changing weather conditions. The murals show the set of scenes from the epic ‘Kumarasambhava’. On the inner ceilings there are some portrait paintings of men and...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil and Telugu
Date Range:: 1500-1699
Extent:: 102 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/3/3
Title:: Amman temple ceiling
Scope & Content:: The events bin about the marriage of Lord Siva to Uma and the birth of Skanda. Kumarasambhava basically talks about the birth of Kumara (Kartikeya), the son of Siva and Parvati. Kumarasambhava literally means "Birth of Kumara". This epic of seventeen cantos entails 'Sringara Rasa', the rasa of l...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil and Telugu
Date Range:: 1500-1699
Extent:: 45 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/5
Title:: Panchanadisvara Temple, Tiruvaiyaru
Scope & Content:: Tiruvaiyaru Panchanadisvara also called as Iyarisvara, a Siva temple located 12 kms from the north of Tanjavur. Tiruvaiyaru in Tamil means the 'Holy Land of Five Rivers'. The temple in its current form and structure dates back to the Pallava period with further improvements and renovation during...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1600-1699
Extent:: 113 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/5/3
Title:: Panchanadisvara Temple, Thiruvaiyāru. South Gallery, South wall, Upper Row
Scope & Content:: The South Gallery's (Corridor) South wall of the temple has more painted imges of high quality drawn with herbal colours depicting the scenes of the festivals celebrated at Thiruvaiyāru and the surrounding places, processions and along with the plays of Lord Siva. Some of the important temple vie...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1600-1699
Extent:: 22 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/6
Title:: Tiruvannamalai Siva Arunachaleswara temple
Scope & Content:: The Kalyana Mandapa (Marriage Hall) of Siva temples' ceilings and walls have the painted murals. The paintings are in extinct condition and peeling off due to changing weather conditions. It is unfortunate a considerable portion of the Frescos had been already removed bacause of sand blasting. Th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1500-1699
Extent:: 395 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP896/6/8
Title:: Tiruvannamalai Arunachalesvara-Kalyana Mandapa-Hall one-North Gallery Ceiling Beam South
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 1500-1699
Extent:: 18 TIFF images

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