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Mahabalipuram Temple

Different art and architecture
by
Sanjukta Das
IDC, IIT Bombay
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  • Outside a rock cut artifact shop

  • Pancharathas, five monolithic pyramidal structures named after the Pandavas

  • Lion sculpture among Five Rathas

  • Bull sculpture among Five Rathas

  • Arjuna's Penance – relief sculpture on a massive scale extolling an episode from the Hindu epic, The Mahabharata

  • Carvings on Draupadi’sRatha

  • Mahishasurmardinimandapa

  • Varaha Cave Temple

  • Remains of the start of construction

  • Rayargopuram

  • Krishna’s Butter ball

Outside a rock cut artifact shop

Pancharathas, five monolithic pyramidal structures named after the Pandavas

Lion sculpture among Five Rathas

Bull sculpture among Five Rathas

Arjuna's Penance – relief sculpture on a massive scale extolling an episode from the Hindu epic, The Mahabharata

Carvings on Draupadi’sRatha

Mahishasurmardinimandapa

Varaha Cave Temple

Remains of the start of construction

Rayargopuram

Krishna’s Butter ball

Mahabalipuram is located on the Coromandel Coast next to the Bay of Bengal. This city was actually the 2nd capital of the Pallavas. During the rule of the Pallavas, new styles of art and architecture were pioneered. Mahabalipuram is where they tried and then exhibited their new artistic and architectural creations. As a result, the area is brimming with rock-cut caves and numerous temples. The city of Mahabalipuram was largely developed by the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I in the 7th century AD. Themandapa or pavilions and the rathas or shrines shaped as temple chariots are hewn from the granite rock face, while the famed Shore Temple, erected half a century later, is built from dressed stone

Outside a rock cut artifact shop

Pancharathas, five monolithic pyramidal structures named after the Pandavas

Lion sculpture among Five Rathas

Bull sculpture among Five Rathas

Arjuna's Penance – relief sculpture on a massive scale extolling an episode from the Hindu epic, The Mahabharata

Carvings on Draupadi’sRatha

Mahishasurmardinimandapa

Varaha Cave Temple

Remains of the start of construction

Rayargopuram

Krishna’s Butter ball


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