The Shore Temple, an iconic structure standing tall against the Bay of Bengal, exemplifies early Dravidian architecture and ... is the Pancha Rathas, five monolithic chariot-shaped temples carved ...

South India is where mythology and mastery converge, and each temple is a storyteller. These wonders are not only sites of ...

Share your most interesting photographs of Mamallapuram's Shore Temple in Tamil Nadu. IMAGE: A kathak dancer poses at the Shore temple in Mahabalipuram at an earlier edition of the Mamallapuram ...

The Shore Temple of Mahabalipuram ... The shrine that is dedicated to Vishnu is the smallest and the oldest. Temple architecture The temples’ architecture reflects a blend of Dravidian and ...

On a crescent-shaped beach where waves build along the coastline stands the ancient Shore Temple, some 60 kilometres ... book delves into Mamallapuram’s architecture with a factfile that seeks ...

Commissioned by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I, this monolithic ... the Brihadeeswarar Temple is over 1,000 years old and rates among the best examples of Dravidian architecture.

Shore Temple, overlooking the Bay of Bengal, is one of the most prominent monuments of Mahabalipuram. Most of the structures in Mahabalipuram, including the Pancha Rathas, are rock cut structures but ...

The Science Branch of the Archaeological Survey of India, Chennai Zone, has taken up paper pulp treatment exercise in the Shore Temple complex ... rock-cut caves, monolithic and open air bas ...

Subsequently came the ‘monolithic temples’ which were carved ... with their capital at Thanjavur, temple architecture reached its pinnacle. Initially, the Chola temples were also moderately ...

In the next period, major building activity took place from 1350 - 1600 CE representing the period of matured Vijayanagara architecture ... The fresco paintings and the monolithic sculptures of the ...