The Shore Temple | Mahabalipuram | Amazing India 🇮🇳| FULL HD #10

The Shore Mandir, Mahabalipuram.
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The Shore Temple which is on the banks of Bay of Bengal is one of the main attractions of Mahabalipuram.
Its beautiful structure is an architectural marvel, which depicts the ancient art.
The Shore Temple was built during 700 - 728 CE.

Once the village port of Mahabalipuram is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tamil Nadu.
Shore Temple is built using granite stones and it is one of the oldest stone temples in South India.

The construction was started by Pallava ruler Narasimhavarman II.
Later, Cholas built the additional parts of the temple after invading Mamallapuram from the Pallavas.

Shore temple is a complex of 3 temples. One big temple and two small temples.
Two shrines dedicated to Lord Shiva. The 3rd and the small temple is Vishnu temple
As an architectural form,
the Shore Temple is of immense importance,
It is the culmination of two architectural phases of the Pallava architecture:
it demonstrates progression from rock cut structures to free standing structural temples, and displays all the elements of mature Dravidian architecture.
Somaskanda Panel with Shiva, Uma and their son Skanda
This is also called the Somaskanada panel

The Dharalinga or Shivalinga is in Rajasimha style, carved out of black basalt stone. It has sixteen faces with slight fluting to create a crown at the top.
The top portion of the linga however is damaged.

The entire compound wall surrounding the temple is sculpted with large sculptures of Nandi.

A monolith sculpture of a partly carved and partly sculpted lion with a hole in its torso is erected within the compound wall of the temple complex.
A miniature image of Durga is sculpted on the back of the image, which is a depiction of Durga
Narasimhavarman II in the 8th century

One can find the sculptures of Narasimha
And sculptures of Goddess Durgha

The central shrine is in the form of a rectangle. It has a magnificent statue of lord Vishnu which is known as Sthala Shayana Perumal.

In 1990, a miniature shrine with the Bhuvaraha image in a well type enclosure was discovered.
This is dated to the Pallava King Narasimhavarman Mamalla’s (AD 638–660) reign.

Surprisingly, the Tsunami in December 2004 exposed some of these submerged parts of temples in Shore Temple complex. This led to more excavations which is still ongoing

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