Cannonball tree flowers (Couroupita guianensis) at the threshold:
This site gives the location of the following images in the temple:
Lord Krishna, often depicted with blue skin:
Sri Draupadi (also spelt Draupadai & here Dropadai), who walked through fire to prove her innocence:
Every year she is honoured during Thimithi (fire walking festival) in this temple.
River flowing from the mountains & feeding padi fields & a lake with lotus & swans - green flooded padi fields are always a reassuring sign of abundance in the cultures of rice-growing societies:
The head of Sri Aravan, which symbolises how he was sacrificed to the Goddess Kali to ensure victory in war:
Aravan's last wish before his death was to get married, but no women were willing to marry a man who was to die the next day. Lord Krishna then took the form of a woman (Mohini) & married him. In Koovagam in India, 'Ali', Hijra or Aravani (third gender) mark the Aravan festival by symbolically marrying Aravan on the first day & then mourning his death & breaking their taali bangles (to symbolise widowhood) on the next.
Ganesha - some Chinese Mahayana Buddhists in Singapore also worship him & bathe his statue with milk during Visakha Bucha (Vesak Day):
Lingam:
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