The Temples of Tiruchanur – Balasubrahmanya

This image is located to the left of the entrance of the above shrine. Standing in samabbanga, this deity keeps the right hand in | abhaya and die left in Katihasta. He is adorned with Yajnopavita, \ Udarbandha, Graiveyakas, a girdle with a kirtimukha buckle j and a garland reaching…

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The Temples of Tiruchanur – Kumara

This image, along with the two attendant images, is located in the north-western angle of the prakara wall. Seated on the peacock with the right leg bent and hanging on the side of the bird and the left leg bent at the knee and kept diagonally with its foot resting on the back…

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The Temples of Tiruchanur – Vishnu

This image is found in the central koshta in the western wall of the Garbhagriha. Standing in samabhanga, this deity holds samkha and chakra in the two upper hands, keeps the lower right in abhaya and hangs the lower left hand and touches the left thigh the tips of the…

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The Temples of Tiruchanur – Dakshinamurthi

The image of this deity is found in the central Koshtha in the south wall of the Garbhagriha. Seated with the right leg slightly bent and resting on the shoulders of theApas- marapurusha, lying prostrate below, and the left leg bent at the knee at right angles and resting on…

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The Temples of Tiruchanur – Ganapati

This image is to the right of the entrance of the Antarala. Seated with his left leg folded and resting against die rear part of the portruding  belly, and the right leg bent at the knee and upraised and touchinh the side of the belly, this deity holds ankusa in the upper…

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