File:Tremal Naig's Choultry, Madura - British Library P953.jpg
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[edit]Thomas Daniell: Tremal Naig's Choultry, Madura
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artist QS:P170,Q708907 |
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Title |
Tremal Naig's Choultry, Madura |
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print object_type QS:P31,Q11060274 |
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Description |
English: Tremal Naig's Choultry, Madura
From the source, Plate 18 from the second set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery'. The Pudu Mandapa is outside the east gate of the Minakshi temple at Madurai. Built by Tirumala Nayak in 1635 as a choultry or reception hall for pilgrims, it is a long hall with piers carved with magnificent yalis (mythical animals), and portrait sculptures of the Nayaka rulers and their ministers. The projecting brackets supporting the ceiling are carved in the form of seated lions. The figures in the centre are paying 'divine honours', as Daniell calls it, to the carved images of Tirumala Nayaka and three of his wives. Wikipedia: Pudumandapam, also called Vasantha mandapam was completed by Thirumalai Nayak in the 17th century. It is in front of the eastern tower, outside the current walled complex. It leads to the unfinished Eastern gopuram. It has 124 pillars, each with intricately carved sculptures of Meenakshi's wedding to Shiva, Kali, Nataraja, Surya, Chandra as well as common life scenes such as elephants eating sugarcane stalks are found in this mandapam. Its popularity led to shopkeepers occupying the pillared hall, some of which hide or make a complete view of the sculpture difficult. |
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Depicted place | Madurai | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1798 date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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lithograph medium QS:P186,Q15123870 |
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height: 54.6 cm (21.4 in); width: 74.7 cm (29.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,54.6U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,74.7U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q23308 |
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Accession number |
P953 |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000004322u00018000.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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