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YOU ARE HERE

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MADA KOIL
STREET

SHORE TEMPLE
ROAD

PANCHA RATHAS PANCHA PANDAVA MANDAPA TRIMURTI CAVE SHORE TEMPLE

MAHISHASURA MARDHINI CAVE VARAHA CAVE GANESHA RATHA
ARJUNA’S PENANCE KRISHNA MANDAPAM KRISHNA’S BUTTERBALL

A suggested walking route is marked out by means of numbers in the map above.

Information presented in this Pictoguide is arranged in the same sequence and correspondingly numbered for easy reference.

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References / Further Reading

 C. Sivaramamurti. Mahabalipuram New Delhi, ASI, 2006

 Dehejia, Vidya, Royal Patrons and Great Temple Art, Bombay, Marg Publications, 1988
 Dehejia, Vidya. Indian Art, Phaidon, 1997
 Deva, Krishna. Temples of India Aryan Books International, New Delhi, 1995.
 Hardy, Adam. Temple Architecture of India, University of California Press, 2007
 Howes Jeniffer, Illustrating India: The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie, 2010
 Huntington Susan. The Art of Ancient India : Hindu, Buddhist, Jain. London and Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1985
 Punja, Shobita. ed. Indian Culture for Everyone, New Delhi, INTACH and Arvind Kumar Publications, 2007
 Sastri, Nilkantha, A History of South India. Madras, OUP, [1955] 1983
 Singh Upinder, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From Stone Age to the 12th Century, New Delhi,
Pearson, 2008
 Stierlin, Henri. Hindu India: From Khajuraho to the Temple City of Madurai. Taschen, 2002

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Photography
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Research
Sonali Dhingra | Amit Ray

Design & Layout

Amit Ray

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