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I am not good at mythology, I have tried naming cherecters. suggest me good names to the sculptures ( if you dint like my nomenclature). these are the images of walls of cave temples in mahabalipuram.

GovardhanaGiridhari.: To protect a town called “nandagopa”, krishna lifts a mountain called “govardhana giri” with his small finer. All living creature take protection under that.

Gopika/gopalaka : These are the subjects of the town. Krishna used to be very naughty with them, specially gopikas. continuation of above image.

Balaram : elder brother of krishna. partner in all activities. continuation of above images.

anantashayana/ padmanabha : image of vishnu with his wife lakshmi. he has a lotus coming out of his naval and brahma is sits in that. Located below light house

mahishasuramardhini : Goddess durga comes down to earth to kill an evil demon mahishasura. Located below light house

• India’s oldest light house
• Photos: Mahabalipuram
• Gods, demons, dancers, soldiers etc.
• Mahabalipuram – ‘Pallava’ remains.
  

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Related photos : patten, Gods, demons, dancers, soldiers etc. Halebidu – An Architectural beauty.

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I started loving history and geography only after I stopped studying them. Text books say Buddhism was propagated by ashoka’s sons to Srilanka, south-east Asian islands trade path. I could not see Lakshadweep Islands till 2007, how could they do with 100 BC technologies. Some of the other examples are: Big chunk of population in all those countries are of Tamilians. how ? Precedents (only those names I get to here) names are Suhardo, Sukarno, Meghavathi Sukarno-Putri etc which are almost Sanskrit. why ? One of biggest Indian temple is there in Cambodia. how ?

Some of the proofs that actually saw were in mahabalipuram. There were remains of a port, through which south Indians supposedly did trading and also exchanged culture and language. The other thing I am showing you was a light house.

Light house, of course is carved beautifully as any of other structures. It has a store room (which is not locked for avoiding illegal activities) for keeping wood dry. Burning woods (or may be coal) used to show direction for traders. It is located in such a place that entire city also can utilize light.

• Wall sculptures
• Photos: Mahabalipuram
• Gods, demons, dancers, soldiers etc.
• Mahabalipuram – ‘Pallava’ remains.

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These are rest of the photos of Halebidu. Reference to my previous post Halebidu an architectural beauty

Halebidu karnataka travel photography

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This is the most favorite place on the face of the earth for me. I love sitting there for a long time and daydreaming. I do not have the count how many times I been there. Halebeedu (search in net for: halebeedu, halebeed, halebid or dwarasamudra) is one of the very skilled works I have seen.

There are many reasons why I go there. One is its uniqueness; it is built in Hoysala style – very different from any other south Indian temples (tamilnadu is kingdom of temples; most of all other state temples are built in the same of architectural style, except few historical ones). Second is it is very calm – only Pease lovers come here, god lovers go to the other similar temple nearby belur. And third reason is the surrounding, it’s green.

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Narasimha is one of the “Avatars” of Vishnu; you can read it more in here in Wikipedia. You can find the statues, idols and sculptures in temples of any ancient non-Dravidian kingdoms. So here is one of them, in Hampi. Hampi was the capital of Vijaya- nagara Empire, which once ruled entire south India. Hampi was biggest and richest city in the whole world during its time. Now Hampi belongs one elite group to world heritages.

Viki shows This image for Hampi – Lakshmi Narasimha

Usually Narasimha is accompanied by Lakshmi his wife (goddess of wealth), sitting on his lap. Some time in storybooks you will also find the demon king Hiranyakashyapu on his lap with his intestines pulled out by the god himself. Hampi had one of such a statue. Eventually by nature or may be by the courtesy of Hyderabad Nijams, the statue was reframed. Narasimha was forced to take divorce from Lakshmi, and she magically dis- appeared.

Some time back, (I don’t know when it was, may be ten years back) under discussion and Shivarama Karanta (a renowned writer and Jnanapeetha award winner) wrote a letter to the arch- -eological department and the ministry about this bad condition of this fearsome god in Hampi.

Now the story starts. Ministry calls some local contractor “Yo man, ‘ssup maan …there is a god in Hampi. Go and “repair” him”. That semi-engineer might have just returned from “Shabari- -malai” trip, had full of “Swamiye sharanamayyappa “in his mind, starts of with the work. Some sand some cement makes god – “ repair “. Now this is how god looks in Hampi. Engineer made laxmi’s devorce with this god official. The statue looks like upper half narasimha and lower as ayyappa.

Ayyappa

There is a thousand miles of deference between Vijaya- nagara kingdom and Cheran kingdom in Kerala, for god’s sake how can there be a mixture of architecture? There are some things in this world; they look good if you leave it to them their selves. In case I meet that engineer I will surely ask “Sir, did you ever thought of crucifying narasimha.. You know … the lion might look good nailed to a cross“

Here is one one example, for how Mrs. and Mr. Narasimha look in a Sculpture (on wall actually) a painting and a idol

There is one more example; I wanted to write but have no information is “Kukke Subrahmanya” temple. Yes it is the same temple god 2-million google hits after little master Sachin Tendulker visited (for bribing god for getting into Indian team). If you have ever seen temple, and you have the habit of admiring the architectural wonder (and also you are not to busy praying), you will really get confused. You bound think did “Raja Raja Chola” from all the way from “tanjaore” came here and built this temple?? Subrahmanya temple has Tamilnad Gopuram, huge one. What is the point in Copying architecture? When you have your own?? One day we all forget history and we need at least different things to show “this is Hoysala style, this is Dravidian style “.

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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. 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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