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Mahabalipuram
2009-07-07 02:08:47
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About Mahabalipuram
Mahabalipuram (Tamil: மகாபலிபுரம்)
Another name : Mamallapuram (Tamil: மாமல்லபுரம்)
Location : Town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian, the state of Tamil Nadu.
Area has an average elevation of 12 metres (39 feet).
Mahabalipuram was a 7th century port city of the South Indian dynasty of the Pallavas its around 60 km south from the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. It is believed to have been named after the Pallava king Mamalla. It has various historic monuments built largely between the 7th and the 9th century, and has been classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The temples of Mamallapuram, built largely during the reigns of Narasimhavarman and his successor Rajasimhavarman, its showcase the movement from rock-cut architecture to structural building. The mandapam or pavilions and the rathams 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 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.
All but one of the rathams from the first phase of Pallava architecture are modeled on the Buddhist viharas or monasteries and chaitya halls with several cells arranged around a courtyard. Art historian Percy Brown, in fact, traces the possible roots of the Pallava Mandapa to the similar rock-cut caves of Ajanta Caves and Ellora Caves. Referring to Narasimhavarman's victory in AD 642 over the Chalukyan king Pulakesin II, Brown says the Pallava king may have brought the sculptors and artisans back to Kanchi and Mamallapuram as 'spoils of war'.
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Near Visitable places in Mahabalipuram
Varaha Cave Temple ,Shore Temple ,Pancha Rathas (Five Chariots)
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