South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c12.s2.64

c12.s2.64

Tanjore temple built by Rājarāja I at the beginning of the eleventh century A.D., were installed images of Nambi-Ārūranār (i.e., Sundaramūrti), Tirujnānasambandar, Nangai-Paravaiyār (wife of Sundaramūrti), Tirunāvukkaraiyar, Periya-Perumāl and his queen Lōkamahādēviyār, Meypporul-Nāyanār and Siruttonda-Nāyanār. The set of images illustrating the story of the last-mentioned, included Kshētrapāla, Bhairava, Siruttonda-Nambi, Tiruvenkāttu-Nangai (his wife) and Sirāladēvar (his son); see *S.I.I.*, Vol. II. Introduction, p. 39 f. In the temple at Dhārāsuram near Kumbakōnam are pictured scenes from the lives of most of these sixty-three Saiva devotees with labels cut on their pedestals. These belong to the thirteenth century A.D.