{"id":207967,"date":"2022-09-27T19:11:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=207967"},"modified":"2022-09-27T19:11:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:41:29","slug":"sittanavasal-a-jain-heritage-site-in-tamil-nadu-battles-the-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sittanavasal-a-jain-heritage-site-in-tamil-nadu-battles-the-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Sittanavasal, a Jain heritage site in Tamil Nadu, battles the elements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cSittanavasal, a Jain heritage site in Tamil Nadu, battles the elements\u201d <\/strong>published in The Hindu <\/b>on\u00a025th\u00a0<\/sup>September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/h5>\n

At least three-fourths of the art in Sittanavasal is either damaged or vandalised. This is due to unrestricted public access and general exposure to the elements.<\/p>\n

About Sittanavasal<\/h5>\n

Located in<\/strong>: Pudukottai district of Tamil Nadu<\/p>\n

It is considered by historians to be one of the oldest inhabited areas in the district and a major centre of Jain influence for 1,000 years just before the Christian era.<\/p>\n

Sittanavasal is the name used synonymously for the hamlet and the hillock that houses a)<\/strong> The Arivar Kovil (temple of Arihats – Jains who conquered their senses), b)<\/strong> ‘Ezhadipattam’ (a cavern with 17 polished rock beds), c)<\/strong> Megalithic burial sites and d)<\/strong> The Navachunai tarn (small mountain lake) with a submerged shrine.<\/p>\n

This is the only place in Tamil Nadu where one can see Pandya paintings<\/strong>. The site is administered by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). ASI has undertaken conservation measures and also introduced digital checks to track public access.<\/p>\n

About Sittanavasal’s painting works<\/h5>\n

The artwork on the ceiling of the sanctum and the Ardha mandapam of Arivar Kovil is an early example of post-Ajanta cave paintings of the fourth to sixth centuries. It is done using the fresco-secco technique<\/strong> (a process that dispenses with the preparation of the wall with wet plaster).<\/p>\n

The ceiling paintings show \u2018bhavyas\u2019 (exalted souls who work to achieve moksha or spiritual liberation) enjoying themselves in a pool, full of blooming lotuses.<\/p>\n

The colours are a mixture of plant dyes and mineral elements such as lime, lamp black, and clay pigments such as ochre for yellow and terre verte for the greyish-green tints.<\/p>\n

About Sittanavasal’s inscriptions<\/h5>\n

The Sittanavasal has inscriptions from Brahmi and \u2018vattaezhuthu\u2019, from the third century AD. Early Tamil inscriptions from the ninth century AD of the Jain monk Ilan-Gautaman were also present here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cSittanavasal, a Jain heritage site in Tamil Nadu, battles the elements\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a025th\u00a0September 2022. What is the News? At least three-fourths of the art in Sittanavasal is either damaged or vandalised. This is due to unrestricted public access and general exposure to the elements. About… Continue reading Sittanavasal, a Jain heritage site in Tamil Nadu, battles the elements<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-207967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}