VILLAGE SURVEY-TEMPLE : SEM IV

 THE SRI SEETHA RAMA ANJANEYA TEMPLE

              

ISOMETRIC VIEW

GOPURAM 

                          THIS TEMPLE BEING 350 YEARS OLD WAS CONSTRUCTED DURING 1932 BY THE VILLAGERS BY THEMSELVES. FEW PEOPLE

DID MASONRY WORK AND FEW HELPED IN GRINDING GARE. GARE IS A MIXTURE OF LIMESTONE, JAGGERY AND FEW OTHER THINGS. BUT BEFORE 500 YEARS THE ANJANEYA MOORTHY WAS ALONE PRESENT IN A SMALL SHRINE.

KODIMARAM

                     THE RAMAR TEMPLE IS PLACED LONGITUDINALLY PARALLEL TO THE RIVER FLOW. A LARGE WOODEN DOOR OF 3m SPAN IS THE ENTRANCE WITH A PYRAMIDICAL SIKHARA AT THE TOP.

IT LEADS TO AN ENTRANCE WALKWAY WITH ARCHES LEADING TO LARGE HALLWAYS ON BOTH THE SIDES AND THE PATH LEADING TO THE GARBHA GRIHA. THE HALLWAYS ACTED AS MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACES WITH PORTABLE IDOLS (URCHAVA MOORTHY). THOSE HALLWAYS WERE USED FOR SEATING DURING FESTIVALS, PRAYERS AND CEREMONIES.THERE WERE JAALI WINDOWS AT THE TOP THAT ACTED AS VENTILATORS.

GOPURAN 2

                    THE CENTRAL WALKWAY WAS DOUBLE STOREY HIGH WITH NICHES, CORNICES AND PILASTERS. IT HAD VENTILATORS AT THE TOP PROVIDING AMPLE AMOUNT OF LIGHT AND VENTILATION.

AT THE END OF THE ENTRANCE HALL CLOSE TO THE VESTIBULE SPACE IS PLACED THE KODIMARAM WITH GARUDA STATUE AND A BALI PEETAM FACING THE GARBHA GRIHA. ON EITHER SIDE OF THIS THERE ARE TWO OPENINGS WHICH LEADS TO THE PRA DAKSHINAPATHA. 

TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE TEMPLE THERE IS A SORGAVASAL OR VAIKUNDA VASAL WHICH IS FACING THE RIVER OPENING ON THE ROAD SIDE. THE OPENING IS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE ORNAMENTED VIMANA.

TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE TEMPLE THERE IS A SORGAVASAL OR VAIKUNDA VASAL WHICH IS FACING THE RIVER OPENING ON THE ROAD SIDE. THE OPENING IS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE ORNAMENTED VIMANA.

                       THE CENTRAL WALKWAY LEADS TO THE PRAYER HALL. IT CONTAINS PILLARS THAT SUPPORT THE ROOF. THE GARBHA GRIHA IS ATTACHED TO THIS. THERE IS AN OPEN PASSAGE CONNECTING THE PRAYER HALL AND THE GARBHA GRIHA. IT CONTAINS THE OTHER IDOLS.

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PLAN IN ISOMETRIC

                           THERE IS A SMALL SIKHARA WITH VERY SIMPLE ORNAMENTATIONS AND KALASA ON THE GARBHA GRIHA WHICH IS LOWER THAN THE
PYRAMIDICAL VIMANA AT THE ENTRANCE. THE TEMPLE COMPLEX IS PLACED INSIDE HIGH RAISED COMPOUNDS

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