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.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Mahishasuramardhini

Happy Durga Pooja to all.

The depiction of Mahishasura vadham is front of the Shiva temple in the Tiger Cave complex, Salavankuppam, near Mahabalipuram. (Pallava circa 6-8 century CE)