Identifying the Large Images on the Central Walls - Face 14

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Face 14 - A 
There are seven images in the fourteenth Face and for convenience sake it is divided into two parts : 14-A and 14-B.
FACE 14-A has the following images ( from your right ) :
1. ANIRUDDHA ( G - S - P - C ) the sixteenth of the CHATURVIMSHATI MURTIS. Goddess USHAS who is on his left is dancing holding her two long tresses, one in each hand.
2. HALAAYUDHA i.e., the one who holds the plough or BALARAAMA, in the recess.
3. PURUSHOTTAMA ( ಪುರುಷೋತ್ತಮ ) ( P - S - G - C ), the seventeenth of the CHATURVIMSHATI MURTIS.
4. ASHTABHUJA LAKSHMEE ( ಅಷ್ಟಭುಜ ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀ ) in dancing pose ( abhaya, padma, cakra i.e., discus, swargahasta, shankha i.e., conch, phala, lambahasta, and daanahasta ). On either side of her are the percussionists.

Face 14 - B


The second part of the Fourteenth Face i.e., 14 - B has three images namely :
1. MAHISHAASURAMARDINI (Mallitamma's work ).The kannada inscription says that it is DURGEE ( ದುರ್ಗೀ ).
2. MOHINEE ( in the recess ) dancing with a cobra in her hands and long ringletty hair falling behind her.
3. ADHOKSHAJA ( ಅಧೋಕ್ಷಜ ) ( G - S - C - P ), the eighteenth of the CHATURVIMSHATI MURTIS.

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