About: One of the oldest structure standing in maha- balipuram (now Mamallapuram, I still like the old name). There are supposed to be seven temples and all of them submerged. The rest six are still under water. During Indira Gandhi’s visit, she promised to offer national monument status, she did. Now this is the only temple standing on the beach. All the precautions are taken, that the ocean king does not invade this. Still the salty sea doing its work, its ruining the beauty of the wall without even touching it. Once in year chemical treatment is done to remove all the salt from the walls.
The temple was badly hit by Tsunami, and also by British Queen (locals tell she has taken the golden ‘Shiva Linga’ hundred years back ). you can also see remaining of a port 1300 year old. These kinds of docks south east coast only used to make trade with Srilanka and south East Asian countries.
Place: once submerged now protected temple. Gods are Shiva (linga) and ananthashayana. And don’t miss the scripture in ‘pali’ ‘language carved in pedestals. ‘Pali’ was the official language of ‘Pallavas’.
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Nice shot. I love this place. great place to chill out. fishermans cove is my favorite.
Thank you .
i love this place too. There are lot many photos. I will post them sometime.
what is “fishermans cove” , i think i missed it.
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About: One of the oldest structure standing in maha- balipuram (now Mamallapuram, I still like the old name). There are supposed to be seven temples and all of them submerged. During Indira Gandhi?s visit, she promised to offer national monument status, she did[...]
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About: One of the oldest structure standing in maha- balipuram (now Mamallapuram, I still like the old name). There are supposed to be seven temples and all of them submerged. During Indira Gandhi?s visit, she promised to offer national monument status, she did[…]
Oye, Fishermans Cove is Taj Group of Hotels’ Beach Resort.
Anyways, you are a GEM photographer
Oh … I got it. !!
Thanks.
Mahablipuram photographs are excellent.Especially the silhouette and the clouds. Marvellous!
Hi,
Couple of corrections. the tsunami revealed a lot of the earlier buried portions. due to stone wall put up, it did not affect the shoretemple. there are no historic records of 7 temples – the earliest stone inscritions talk of the shoretemple being a composite one – a shiva srine and a vishnu shrine only. pali was not the script of the pallavas – the correct one is Pallava grantam – which is old tamil. lastly the british did not take any golden lingam – the lingam and the nandhi ( not of the shore temple) but of the current ganesh ratha – were taken away during 1780 -1790 by two governor. dont want to name them here. but they did pay compensation to the villagers for this. the current ganesh idol is a new addition ( infact except for a small carving of ganesh in the shore temple) there is no statue of him in the mamallapuram complex.
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