RBSI - Tirumala Nayak's Choultry, Madurai -1798 Plate18 from the second set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery'. The Pudu Mandapa is outside the east gate of the Minakshi temple at Madurai. B

Posted on: 3 January 2018

Tirumala Nayak's Choultry, Madurai -1798

Plate18 from the second set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery'. The Pudu Mandapa is outside the east gate of the Minakshi temple at Madurai. Built by Tirumala Nayak in 1635 as a choultry or reception hall for pilgrims, it is a long hall with piers carved with magnificent yalis (mythical animals), and portrait sculptures of the Nayaka rulers and their ministers. The projecting brackets supporting the ceiling are carved in the form of seated lions.The figures in the centre are paying 'divine honours', as Daniell calls it, to the carved images of Tirumala Nayaka and three of his wives.

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Its not a choultry... it was built only to perform the marraige of Lord Shiva and Parvathy, which takes place every year called Chittirai Thiruvila...its actually a grand marrtiage hall. but now sadly its being destroyed both by the govt. and the public

Namo DevyayiMahdevyai ShivayaiSatatannamahaaÂ¡ Namah prakrutyayi Bhadrayayi Namona mahaa!!

Thousand Pillar Hall

I have got the opportunity to visit the place.lt is so beautiful architecture worth seeing.