Image title: Minanatha and Bhairavanatha

Full title: Minanatha and Bhairavanatha seated on their vehicles, Shrisailam, Andhra.

Fig. 2: This panel is also from the same temple as above, in which both Minanatha and Bhairavanatha are depicted facing each other. Both are found with matted hair with a big kundala in their ears; cross bands from their shoulders; bangle like ornaments in their forearm and hand; and both are wearing langoti (loin cloth) under their waist. Minanatha wearing the rudrakshamala in his neck, his left hand in a danda-hasta mudra posture is resting on the yoga-danda which is placed on the fish; his right hand is resting on the tail of the fish in a katya valambita mudra; his left leg is folded and rested on the fish and his right leg is hanging in lalitasana pose. Similarly, Bhairavanatha is also in a lalitasana pose whose right leg is folded and resting on the scorpion and the left leg is hanging. He is wearing some necklace like ornament; his left hand in a danda-hasta mudra posture resting on the yoga-danda, which is placed on the scorpion; his right leg is folded and resting on his right thigh.

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The Siddha/Natha tradition symbolize the most comprehensive understanding and application of the theoretical and methodological tenets of Tantric philosophy. There are many Siddha-centres all over the Tamilnadu. The temples in Tamil-Nadu contain the sculptures depicting the Tantric rites and the images of the venerated Siddhas in it.