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Multi-periodSite Name: Mamallapuram Alternative Name: Mahablipuram
Country: India
NOTE: This site is 6.779 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Mamallapuram
Latitude: 12.616400N  Longitude: 80.191772E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Mamallapuram
Mamallapuram submitted by motist : Mamallapuram (Mahablipuram) in Tamil Nadu 80 11 39 E 12 37 02 N Ancient sea port on the golf of Bengal from the beginning of the CE, rock-cut temples and carvings, the capital of the Pallava dynasty (from 630 CE). Most beautiful rock carvings in India, UNESCO World Heritage (Vote or comment on this photo)
Mahabalipuram was a 7th century port city of the South Indian dynasty of the Pallavas around 60 km south from the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. The name Mamallapuram is believed to have been given after the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I, who took on the epithet Maha-malla (great wrestler), as the favourite sport of the Pallavas was wrestling. It has various historic monuments built largely between the 7th and the 9th centuries, and has been classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The temples of Mamallapuram, portraying events described in the Mahabharata, built largely during the reigns of Narasimhavarman and his successor Rajasimhavarman, showcase the movement from rock-cut architecture to structural building. The mandapa 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. What makes Mamallapuram so culturally resonant are the influences it absorbs and disseminates. The Shore Temple includes many bas reliefs, including one 100 ft. long and 45 ft. high, carved out of granite.

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Mamallapuram submitted by motist : Mamallapuram (Mahablipuram) Tamil Nadu 80 11 39 E 12 37 02 N Ancient sea port on the golf of Bengal from the beginning of the CE, rock-cut temples and carvings, the capital of the Pallava dynasty (from 630 CE). Most beautiful rock carvings in India, UNESCO World Heritage (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram
Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram submitted by liesbethpankaja : Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram. A simple lotus medallion with a gandha bherunda, the double headed eagle and a scorpion with a human face. Possibly astronomical symbols indicating the occurance of a solar eclipse?

Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram
Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram submitted by liesbethpankaja : Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram. A cobra approaches a solar disk, this depicts a solar eclipse.

Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram
Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram submitted by liesbethpankaja : Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram. An Indian sphinx or purushamriga depcited on the ceiling flanking a lotud medallion and opposite the saint Kannappa. For more on these figures read Raja Deekshithar's article on Asian Art.

Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram
Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram submitted by liesbethpankaja : Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram. One of the reliefs in a very different style from the other sculpture depicts a Western trader or sailor with boots, a hat and a heavy coat. In the nearby village of Sadras the Dutch VOC had a trading settlement and fort in the 17th and 18th century.

Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram
Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram submitted by liesbethpankaja : Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion near Mamallapuram. A simple pavilion of four by six pillars and a flat roof. The sculpture and shape of the pillars indicate it may have been build in the 14th century.

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Mamallapuram submitted by motist : Mamallapuram Varaha is depicted in art as either purely animal or as being anthropomorphic, having a boar's head on a man's body. In the latter form he has four arms, two of which hold the wheel and conch-shell while the other two hold a mace, sword or lotus or make a gesture (or "mudra") of blessing. The Earth is held between the boar's tusks. more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varaha (1 comment)

Mamallapuram Pancha Pandava Mandapam
Mamallapuram Pancha Pandava Mandapam submitted by motist : Mamallapuram (Mahablipuram) Tamil Nadu 80 11 39 E 12 37 02 N Ancient sea port on the golf of Bengal from the beginning of the CE, rock-cut temples and carvings, the capital of the Pallava dynasty (from 630 CE). Most beautiful rock carvings in India, UNESCO World Heritage Pancha Pandava Mandapam

Mamallapuram
Mamallapuram submitted by motist : Mamallapuram (Mahablipuram) in Tamil Nadu 80 11 39 E 12 37 02 N Ancient sea port on the golf of Bengal from the beginning of the CE, rock-cut temples and carvings, the capital of the Pallava dynasty (from 630 CE). Most beautiful rock carvings in India, UNESCO World Heritage

Mamallapuram Ganesha Ratha
Mamallapuram Ganesha Ratha submitted by motist : Mamallapuram (Mahablipuram) Tamil Nadu 80 11 39 E 12 37 02 N Ancient sea port on the golf of Bengal from the beginning of the CE, rock-cut temples and carvings, the capital of the Pallava dynasty (from 630 CE). Most beautiful rock carvings in India, UNESCO World Heritage

Mamallapuram Varaha Cave Temple
Mamallapuram Varaha Cave Temple submitted by motist : Mamallapuram (Mahablipuram) in Tamil Nadu 80 11 39 E 12 37 02 N Ancient sea port on the golf of Bengal from the beginning of the CE, rock-cut temples and carvings, the capital of the Pallava dynasty (from 630 CE). Most beautiful rock carvings in India, UNESCO World Heritage Varaha Cave Temple

Mamallapuram Trimurti Temple
Mamallapuram Trimurti Temple submitted by motist : Mamallapuram (Mahablipuram) in Tamil Nadu 80 11 39 E 12 37 02 N Ancient sea port on the golf of Bengal from the beginning of the CE, rock-cut temples and carvings, the capital of the Pallava dynasty (from 630 CE). Most beautiful rock carvings in India, UNESCO World Heritage Trimurti Temple

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Stone tools that revolutionised study of India's pre-history by Andy B on Wednesday, 04 July 2012
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On display at the Government Museum, Chennai recently were two stone tools discovered by geologist Robert Bruce Foote in May and September 1863 at the Brigade Ground at Pallavaram, Chennai, and Attirampakkam village in Tiruvallur district. He found a hand-axe at Pallavaram and a cleaver at Attirampakkam. They were paleolithic tools. Human beings fashioned them out of stones more than five lakh years to 15 lakh years ago.

Foote's discovery revolutionised the study of India's pre-history. For, it threw enormous light on how hunter-gatherers made these tools and used them to butcher animals, dig out tubers, tap sap from plants and so on. The pre-historic man was so skilful that he made a variety of these tools: hand-axes, cleavers, discoids, scrapers, choppers, knives and so on. (The word paleolithic comes from “paleo” which means old and “lithic” which means stone. Megalithic is big stone).

Although several organisations in India are preparing to celebrate the 150th year of Foote's (1834-1912) discovery of the “first paleolith of South India” next year, the Government Museum, Chennai, has chosen to “celebrate” it now and displayed these two stone tools he discovered at Pallavaram and Attirampakkam. The museum acquired his pre-historic collections in 1904.

Foote was a multi-faceted man. He was a geologist, archaeologist, ethnographer, palaeontologist, museologist and a landscape painter. He was the father of India's pre-history. He aimed for perfection in whatever he did. He systematically catalogued by 1910 all the stone tools he had discovered at Pallavaram, Attirampakkam and elsewhere. He proof-read the catalogue himself.

Shanti Pappu, specialist in Tamil Nadu's pre-history who conducted excavations at Attirampakkam and did insightful research on Foote's life and many-sided work, said: “There is no scholar of Foote's vision and perseverance in discovering India's pre-history and uniting different fields of science such as archaeology, geology, anthropology, museology etc.. into a comprehensive whole to turn the light on our past.” She called Foote “one of the most outstanding figures in India's archaeology.”

Read more in The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-culture/article3516451.ece

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Re: Mamallapuram by motist on Sunday, 08 August 2010
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