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.

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Krishna at it again

Gopi Vastraaharan - Krishna stealing the clothes of gopis. This pillar is from Sree parthasartathy Temple, Triplicane. For narration and other pictures from Bhatkal, Karnataka and George Town, Chennai see: http://stonestories.blogspot.in/2011/09/vastraapaharan-krishna-and-gopis.html

At Sree Parthasarathy Temple, Thiruvallikkeni

There is another sculpture on the same theme at Sree Sundararaja Perumal Temple, Kanchipuram. See Bhusavali's blog

Stories in Stone

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Krishna at it again

At Sree Parthasarathy Temple, Thiruvallikkeni

At Sree Parthasarathy Temple, Thiruvallikkeni

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