* VivekaJyoti *: 250 years old temple paintings destroyed by the Tamil Nadu Government

• * VivekaJyoti *: 250 years old temple paintings destroyed by the Tamil Nadu Government

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  • VANISHING LEGACY:

    1. At the Mannarkovil temple near Ambasamudram in Tamil Nadu, some surviving paintings juxtaposed with the whitewashed wall where a ceiling-high painting of Narasimha existed;

    2. a photograph of the since-effaced Narasimha painting, taken in 2007.

    
    

    Tamil Nadu temple murals effaced on a large scale

    
    

    T.S. Subramanian

    150 to 250-year-old works whitewashed; loss to Tamil Nadu’s painting tradition
  
  • Similar vandalism has been witnessed at other temples in the State, including the Varadarajaswamy temple in Kancheepuram, the Lakshmi Narasimhar temple at Sevilimedu, and the Sanjeeva Rayar temple at Iyengarkulam, both near Kancheepuram.