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Horse, Elephant and The Chariot - Dharaasuram
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Elephant or OX
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Gangaikonda Cholapuram
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See an Ox or the elephant ?
I
have seen similar sculptures in
most of the cholas temple. I
think ...
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There was hardly any tourists
when I visited this temple ...
For almost an hour ... I was
only one ...
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Gangaikonda Cholapuram
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Dharaasuram
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Dharaasuram - Fine Sculptures
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I think this time eroded,
de-shaped front Gopuram make the
main one more appealing to look
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Though this temple at Dharasuram
is smaller when compared to the
ones at Tanjore and Gangai ...
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Gangaikonda Cholapuram
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Gangaikonda Cholapuram
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Tanjore - Thuvaarabalakar ( Temple Guardian Gods )
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Copying the Big temple at
tanjore, Rajendra cholan built
this one on commemorating his
victory over ...
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One of it main features is that
this whole temple temple is
built out of hard granites ...
but they ...
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Tanjore - Tilting Gopuram :-)
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Tanjore - My Favourite Lord Ganesha
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Tanjore - Front Gopuram
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Built by Rajaraja Cholan to
reflects his power, wealth and
glory of his golden period
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Tanjore - Endless Tamil inscriptions describing its glory ..
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Tanjore - Main Gopuram
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Tanjore - Main Gopuram
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Best view ... is see this
gopuram from the left most
corner as seen in this pics. ...
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Tanjore - Main Gopuram
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Tanjore - Main Gopuram
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Tanjore - Main Gopuram
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This main gopuram is about 70
meters .... tallest of its kind
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Every thing is very big with
respect to this temple ...
Gopurams, Nandi and Lingam ..
all are jumbo ...
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Rajaraja Cholan wished to build
a temple like this size .. on
seeing the majestic buddha
statues in ...
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