Intermingling with gods and celestials, ascetics and hybrid animals at the Someshwara temple is a multitude of ordinary people, plying their various medieval trades. Dancers gesture, and perform kolatta to the rhythms of the swaying drummers while musicians play various instruments. A potter paddles his partially dry pot. Acrobats synchronise to tumble in a wheel and a female gymnast holds the inverted scorpion pose. Jeshthi wrestlers perform for an audience. A snake-charmer plays a pumgi (flute) to mesmerize a cobra uncoiling from its basket. A huntsman hefts an antelope kill on his shoulders.
The Someshwara temple contains within it an enchanted universe of gods,
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A stone linga and a graceful stone icon of Kamakshi behind a consecrated Srichakra occupy the two
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The Moon God Chandra floats on a cloud on the top section of an entrance pillar.
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Mythical creatures that combine the features of two or more different animals are found in
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Wandering ascetics from a variety of sects and lineages were a very common sight in
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Intermingling with gods and celestials, ascetics and hybrid animals at the Somesvara temple
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Animals mingle with gods and humans on the pillars and walls of the temple, and.
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