Pancha Rathas at Mahabalipuram, Southern India
Pancha Rathas at Seven Pagodas, Southern India. Seven Pagodas has served as a nickname for the south Indian city of Mahabalipuram, also called Mamallapuram in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This postcard shows a detail of the Pancha Rathas - shrines carved during the reign of King Mahendravarman I and his son Narasimhavarman I. Each temple is a monolith, carved whole from a rock outcropping of pink granite. The five monolithic pyramidal structured shrines are named after the Pandavas (Arjuna, Bhima, Yudhishtra, Nakula and Sahadeva) and Draupadi
Picture No
10506966
Media ID
46548138
Size
5495px x 3555px
(9.4MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1910s
