Madanikas of the Chennakeshava Temple, Belur – Part 4

Madanika 22: the Hunter. Wall 29

This is a real nice one. The madanika is carrying a bow… (broken with the lower half no longer there… muslim invaders/vandalism…) …

On the left is a smaller sculpture of a fellow hunter who has a thorn stuck in her foot, which a servant is trying to take out.



On the right at the madanika feet is a servant carrying the hunt.  

 

 

 Madanika 23: Wall 29

 

 

 

 

Madanika 24:  Mohini.  Wall 29

Supposed to be in perfect symmetry. If a drop of water fell from the tip of her right hand, it would touch her nose, her left breast, the tip of her left hand and then the toe of her left leg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Madanika 25: Vishakanya. Wall 30

Vishakanya -  This woman was supposedly more poisonous than a scorpion.












……symbolized by the scorpion on the platform she stands on – which has died after it has bitten her.

 

 

Madanika 26 & 27:  Wall 31

 

 

 

Madanika 28: Madanika with a ‘Japanese fan’. Between walls 31-32.

…the guide will tell you that this Madanika is holding a Japanese fan…  didn’t really look like one, but that is what the guide will tell you. :)

 Madanika 29: Nagaveena. Wall 32.

This madanika is holding a ‘nagaveena’.. A veena with one end shaped like a snake.

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