#MaduraiKaanchi (ll: 600-603) & #Natrinai mention the purificatory bath of the Mother after having delivered a Child!
#Natrinai (370: 3-4) also refers to the custom of a bath of Ghee by it delivered Mother!
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🔹A Rattle like ornament was also worn to the Child - #Purananuru (198: 1-5)
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The above Weapons were symbolically made either in Gold, or in Silver or in Copper!
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The sculptural representations are also available in South #TamilNadu delineating the same scene! #Aravakurichi
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A panel Sculpture on the wall of the Western prakara pavilion shows the actual position of a mother when she is in the course of delivering a baby!
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The legends say that Mother would worship these sculptures in order to get blessed more milk in her breasts!
Kausalya, Sumitra & Kaikeyi are painted in the position of delivering a Child each in a standing position!
The story of the births of Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Satrukna are interestingly narrated in painting at #Ramalingavilasam!
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