Madras Seven Pagodas

Madras Seven Pagodas

c. 1905
Publisher No.: 
7066
13.85x
8.80cm

[Original caption] Madras, Seven pagodas. This is the largest of the Seven pagodas of Mahabalipuram (once a city and now a village), 35 miles south of Madras. This temple is called the Rath of Bhima, and is an elaborate piece of sculpture, measuring 48 feet by 25 feet, and rising 26 feet from the ground. Each of these Pagodas has been carved out of a single block of stone.[end]

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