Stories in Stone

The monuments and temples in India abound with exquisite sculptures based on the epics. This is a humble attempt to explain some of them.This is no scholarly work.I have only collected these from several sources- oral, printed and on-line. There can be no authentic version of such stories as there are many variations and interpretations . I have left out the complex explanations and debates to just give an overview of episodes depicted in stone. All photographs by (C) V.Harihara Subramanian.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Mahabalipuram

A Tamil scholar has published a book on 'Arjuna's penance' - the bas-relief at Mamallapuram. He wants to set at rest the controversy about it by asserting that the work indeed depicts Arjuna's penance in the Himalayas. more details at : http://tinyurl.com/yln9tnx