#Sithanavasal Arivar Koil is a rock cut cave temple of the Arihants. It contains the 7th century remnants of notable #frescoes paintings technique with many mineral colors in the ceiling of the #sanctum and ardha-mandapam.
Paintings in the roof of the Ardhamnatapa are the mural paintings with #Samavasarana theme (faith of #Jainism). The ceilings have depiction of a #lotus tank filled with lotus flowers with natural looking images of men, animals, flowers, birds and fishes surrounded by bhavyas ("the faithful"), elephants, fishes, one fish shown as jumping out of water.
In the other hand we could see real lotus buds from the lotus pond from this we could understand how skilled artists were hired and utilized in those days. However most of the frescoes which were covered fully in plaster have been severely defaced or not clearly visible due to inadequate security and maintenance resulting in vandalism in the past five or six decades.
----- Ramu.Rm.N
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