{"id":10298,"date":"2011-07-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/18\/ancient-satya-vageeswarar-temple-gets-a-facelift\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T12:00:00","slug":"ancient-satya-vageeswarar-temple-gets-a-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/18\/ancient-satya-vageeswarar-temple-gets-a-facelift\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Satya Vageeswarar Temple Gets A Facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/life-and-style\/religion\/article2207631.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KALAKKAD, THIRUNELVELI, INDIA, July 7, 2011: The Sri Satya Vageeswarar temple has a wealth of inscriptions, sculptures, murals, music pillars and a towering rajagopuram with about 1,500 stucco figures. The temple has features that go back to the Chola period and so could be more than 800 years old.<\/p>\n<p>For its upcoming kumbabishekam later this month, the temple has renovated the 135 ft tall, nine-tiered rajagopuram which teems with 1,500 stucco figures. They were made of &#8216;sudhai&#8217; (lime mortar) which have suffered damage over time. On the inner walls of the rajagopuram&#8217;s nine storys there are about 200 beautiful murals, portraying scenes from the Ramayana, the Mahabharatha, Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam (Siva Leelas), Siva&#8217;s marriage to Parvati, episodes from the lives of the Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Saivite saints, Siva as Bhikshatana, Rati and Manmatha, Krishna Leelas, the wedding of Saivite saint, Sundarar and more. <\/p>\n<p>According to T. Satyamurthy, former superintending archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, the murals are &#8220;an amazing art gallery of puranic themes.&#8221; The REACH Foundation, of which Dr. Satyamurthy is one of the founders, plans to restore the murals which have been vandalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KALAKKAD, THIRUNELVELI, INDIA, July 7, 2011: The Sri Satya Vageeswarar temple has a wealth of inscriptions, sculptures, murals, music,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}