Interior view of a traditional Kerala wooden palace hall at Padmanabhapuram Palace, with a row of carved, fluted wooden pillars with ornate bases and capitals supporting a dark timber ceiling of sloped rafters. Through the open side, a lawn, tropical trees and a whitewashed building with a wooden door and arched windows are visible. No people are present in the scene. - Nithyanandapedia

Nithyanandapedia

Interior view of a traditional Kerala wooden palace hall at Padmanabhapuram Palace, with a row of carved, fluted wooden pillars with ornate bases and capitals supporting a dark timber ceiling of sloped rafters. Through the open side, a lawn, tropical trees and a whitewashed building with a wooden door and arched windows are visible. No people are present in the scene.

More like this

Open the gallery

November 09 2006

A photograph of an empty covered colonnade in an ashram or temple-style building. Rows of tall, slender stone pillars with carved capitals line a stone-floored walkway, casting long diagonal shadows across the polished floor in warm morning sunlight. Beyond the open side lies a lawn with dense green shrubs bearing red flowers, and white-walled buildings with tiled roofs sit in the background among trees. No people are visible in the scene.

November 09 2006

November 10 2006

Empty colonnade at Padmanabhapuram Palace in Kerala. Tall grey stone pillars with carved bases stand along a polished dark stone floor under a wooden eave with ornate carved brackets and a terracotta tiled roof. Whitewashed walls, small wooden-shuttered windows and green foliage at the right edge complete the traditional palace corridor. No people are visible.

November 09 2006

Interior view of a long hall with a polished granite floor and rows of tall white pillars with ornate capitals, edged by green-painted brackets and a painted wooden ceiling. Through the open arcade, several people in white clothing stand in the background near a doorway; a few pale blue chairs are stacked along the side. Warm light falls across the floor from the open courtyard.

Photograph of an empty covered colonnade in an old palace building, with a row of tall, square wooden pillars with carved capitals running along the right side under a dark timber roof. A white-washed wall with low white plinths stands to the left over a worn, mossy stone floor, and a polished dark floor runs along the pillars. A scooter is parked far down the corridor. No people are visible.

A dim, empty interior hall with a dark wooden roof and a row of tall, dark wooden columns with carved bases receding into the distance. The floor is tiled in red, orange and blue-grey tiles that reflect light. Plain white walls and small barred windows line the sides, with daylight glowing at the far end. No people, deities or ritual activity are visible.

November 10 2006

A photograph of an open-sided pillared hall with a tiled roof and exposed wooden rafters. A person in a saffron-orange robe with a long rudraksha mala walks across the stone floor, head tilted upward, followed by several people in white clothing, including an older man in a white shirt and white dhoti and another man in white with a shoulder bag. Ceiling fans and light fixtures hang from the beams, with trees and a white wall visible beyond the open sides.

A covered open walkway with a dark wooden roof and plain white square pillars leads down a narrow brick path toward a whitewashed building with white columns and a balustrade. Green foliage frames the left and right edges. No people are visible; the scene shows an empty palace-style courtyard corridor.