Sujet
Shri Viraraghavasvami
Légende
Shri Viraraghavasvami, a form of Vishnu worshipped at Tiruvallur, a town in the Tiruvallur district, west of Chennai. The image in the sanctuary shows the two-armed Vishnu, from whose navel sprouts a lotus, reclining upon the coils of the serpent Se?a. Unusually, Vishnu’s crown and the lotus beneath his feet ‘spill out’ of the sanctuary. A small image of seated, four-handedLaksmi is placed below the image of the god. On the left of the main temple, in a separate shrine is his consort goddess Kanakavalli, referred to in the inscription by the respectful title Nachchiyar. On the right, aligned with the superstructure of the temple, is the holy tank Hrittapanashini, ‘destroyer of all grief’. To the left a priest performs arati with a five-tiered lamp in his right hand and a bell in his left.
Date
1830
Crédit
Photo12/UIG/Universal History Archive
Notre référence
UMG22A53_098
Model release
Non
Property release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
26,1Mo (2,3Mo) / 24,1cm x 27,1cm / 2850 x 3200 (300dpi)