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Kerala mural painting, the Glossary

Kerala mural paintings are the frescos depicting Hindu mythology in Kerala.^[1]

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Arts of Kerala
Murals in India
Schools of Indian painting

Aymanam

Aymanam is a village in the Kottayam District of Kerala, India.

Azadirachta indica

Azadirachta indica, commonly known as neem, margosa, nimtree or Indian lilac, is a tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae.

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Calcium oxide

Calcium oxide (formula: CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound.

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Chalakudy

Chalakudy is a municipal town situated on the banks of Chalakudy River in Thrissur district of the Kerala state in India.

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Coconut

The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos.

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Edappally

Edappally is a ward of Kochi, Kerala.

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Ettumanoor

Ettumanoor is a municipality in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India.

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Fresco

Fresco (or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster.

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Garcinia morella

Garcinia morella is a species of tree in the family Clusiaceae found in India, and Sri Lanka.

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Gossypium herbaceum

Gossypium herbaceum, commonly known as Levant cotton, is a species of cotton native to the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa and Arabia, where it still grows perennially in the wild as a shrub.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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In visual arts, the ground (sometimes called a primer) is a prepared surface that covers the support of the picture (e.g., a canvas or a panel) and underlies the actual painting (the colors are overlaid onto the ground).

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Guṇa

(गुण) is a concept in Hinduism, which can be translated as "quality, peculiarity, attribute, property".

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Guruvayur

Guruvayur) is a municipal temple town in Thrissur district, of Kerala State in India. It is a suburban town of Thrissur city, located from Thrissur towards the north-west. It houses the Guruvayur Shri Krishna Temple. It is located at a distance of from the state capital Trivandrum towards the north-west, from Kochi towards the north, from Calicut towards south.

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Guruvayur Devaswom Board

Guruvayur Devaswom is a Statutory and Independent body created for the governing and management of 12 temples in Kerala assigned to it.

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Hindu mythology

Hindu mythology is the body of myths attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana) the Puranas, and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and ''Divya Prabandham'', and the Mangal Kavya of Bengal.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indigofera tinctoria

Indigofera tinctoria, also called true indigo, is a species of plant from the bean family that was one of the original sources of indigo dye.

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Kalady

Kalady or Kaladi is a town located between Angamaly and Perumbavoor, east of the Periyar river, near to Malayattoor in Ernakulam district of Kerala, India, not far from Cochin International Airport.

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Kanjoor

Kanjoor is a small town near to Aluva and Perumbavoor.

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Kayamkulam

Kayamkulam is a municipality in the Alappuzha district of Kerala, India.

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Kerala

Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.

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Krishnapuram Palace

The Krishnapuram Palace is a palace and museum located in Kayamkulam near Alappuzha in Alappuzha district, Kerala in southwestern India.

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Kshetram

Kshetram (Kshetra) literally means a region.

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Kumaranalloor

Kumaranalloor is a suburb of Kottayam city, Kottayam taluk, Kerala, India.

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Laterite

Laterite is a soil type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Manasollasa

The also known as Abhilashitartha Chintamani, is an early 12th-century Sanskrit text composed by the Kalyani Chalukya king Someshvara III, who ruled in present-day Karnataka.

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Mattancherry Palace

The Mattancherry Palace is a palace popularly known as the Dutch Palace, in Mattancherry, Kochi, in the Indian state of Kerala which features Kerala murals depicting portraits and exhibits of the Rajas of Kochi.

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Mulanthuruthy

Mulanthuruthy, also spelt Mulamthuruthy, is a south-eastern suburb of the city of Kochi in Kerala, India.

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Mural

A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate.

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Ollur

Ollur is a major suburban area and an old commercial town in the city of Thrissur of Kerala state, South India.

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Padmanabhapuram Palace

Padmanabhapuram Palace, also known as Kalkulam Palace, is a Travancore-era palace located in Padmanabhapuram in the Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Padmanabhaswamy Temple

The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the state of Kerala, India.

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Rajas

Rajas (Sanskrit: रजस्) is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy.

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Ramayana

The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_mural_painting

Also known as Dravidian mural painting, Kerala murals, Mural paintings of Kerala, Murals of Kerala.

Kerala mural painting, the Glossary

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See also

Arts of Kerala

Murals in India

Schools of Indian painting

References