The center panel of the ceiling was decorated with water lilies or other water plants.
A particular narration detailed how Samudra, while tortured in a cauldron full of boiling water, human blood, bone marrow and excrement, caused the contents of the cauldron to cool down and then sat meditating cross-legged on a lotus sprouting from the fluid.
Akilam clearly points to the 'Flame shaped' single white Namam and its ideology clearly focuses on the importance of the '1008 petaled' Lotus.
The lake and side parks also are home to a vast number of lotus, ti plants, and other plants.
Jalaj in Sanskrit expands to 'Born from Water' (jal-aj, jal=water & aj=born) and is specifically referred to Lotus.
The papers may also be folded and stacked into elaborate pagodas or lotuses.
Traditional classification systems recognized Nelumbo as part of the Nymphaeaceae (water lily) family, but traditional taxonomists were likely misled by evolutionary convergences associated with an evolutionary shift from a terrestrial to an aquatic lifestyle.
Suchindram pond has a large variety of aquatic vegetation including water lilly, lotus, floating hearts, pistia and other water plants.
The commune also expanded fresh-water fish and lotus root cultivation, and began planting two crops of rice per year.