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Throw light on the paintings of Sittanavasal.
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Solution
- Caves at Sittanavasal, have outstanding early Pandya paintings.
- Sittanavasal was a residential cave of the Jain monks. They painted the walls with fresco painting.
- The lotus pond is notable for its excellent execution of colours and exposition of the scene.
- The image of lotus flowers, leaves spread all over the pond, animals, elephants, buffalos, swans and a man who plucks the flowers look brilliant.
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