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Kumbakonam is located around 280 km
south of chennai . If u are curious about the geographical details ,
Help urself and find a map .

So my journey started from kanchipuram
after a short stay with my college  friends in the hostel .Got a bus 
at 9 Pm sunday night  , narrow aisle ,  no push back seats , the
journey was quite forgetful , to make things worse the roads were in a
pretty bad state
. I was hardly able to sleep during the whole journey .It was almost
530 when we reached kumbakonam bus stand and i was the happiest person
to get down from the bus which looked more or like a vehicle made out
of  junkyard wars.

kumbakonam is rightly called the temple
ciy  . Almost every street u step in has a temple and mind it that
almost 70 percent of them are huge .The complex architectural
structures, intricate sculptures and inscriptions would just amaze you.
Sometimes i wonder why did they built so many temples so close to each
other .Not to forget that there are countelss number of temples
surrounding kumbakonam.

I am not a religious person and i
normally elude visiting temples but this trip has changed my perception
totally.  Well ,all thanks to my freind yuvanash for helping me to do
so. I have learned that temples are more than just a place of worship .
Temples can be a great source of information in understanding our rich
culture and heritage .

Some of the places that i realy enjoyed visited are mentioned below ..

 

DARASURAM
temple is located just outside the kumbakonam town about 4 km away and
was built in 12 century  AD by the cholas . The temple has been
declared as a world heritage center by UNESCO and has been maintained
by the archeological department of India very well.

The temple is preceded by a huge lawn
with lush green grass which adds to the beauty of the temple .The pic
on the right is the entrance of the temple .Just before the entrance
there is small mandapa which has steps made up of special types of
rocks . The steps give sound of seven swaras when beaten with a another
rock.Unfortunatly the place was sealed as the people were almost
destroying it in the name of chekcing the sounds
.The temple is an excellant example of the artistic excellence , the
people had those days. The sculpture below depicts one of the scenes
from ramayana .

 

This pic above as u can see has two
animals with one face .If u see from the left u can see a bull and if u
see from right u can see an elephant.Well ,the reason behind this
sculpture is still a mystery to me. I might need to google it to know
the story behind it.

This one has a dancer with one face but
three pairs of legs which clearly shows the imaginative skills of the
artist those days .there was a sculpture which depicted two men holding
each others legs and forming a circle like a wheel . unfortunately i
dont have any pic of that :(. The temple is full of pillars which has
inscriptions of varopus dance poses probably bharatnatyam and each
pillar is unique by its style of design.IT would probably take a whole
day if u want to have a close look at each and every sculpture present
in this temple .

 

 

 

 

Bhragadeeswarar temple in
tanjore is again a world heritage center maintained by indian
archeological department .The temple is completely constructed out of
granite stones . The temple was built by one of the chola kings at
around 1000 AD . The temple is located inside a fortress which ofcourse
is not in perfect shape now . Its one of the tallest temples with the
tower reaching a  height of 70 metres . thats quite tall isn’t it
.Local people say the that the tower shadow never falls on the ground.
unfortunately i was in the temple at about 12 so couldn’t observe the
shadow .

 

The top dome of the temple gopuram is
believed to be made up of a single stone which measures about 80 tonnes
. The nandi statue on the right pic is the biggest nandi according to
sources.It is about 12 feet high sitting on an elevated platform.The
shiv lingam inside the main shrine is also the biggest i have seen .

The whole atmosphere inside the temple
campus would transport you thousand years back.  I felt like stepping
inside  a time machine to go back and look how these huge and marvalous
structures were  created .The more you look at these majestic creations
1000 years old more you get obsessed with them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KALLANAI is
another magnificent example of the grandeur and excellance of ancient
architecture  .Kallanai also called as Grand annaicut is a dam built
across river cauvery around 2000 years around , yes thats about the
time the  (A.D)  era started and it still stands as the major source of
irrigation down south for many  villages .

This was the only tourist place in my whole trip whihc is not a temple
. The place is really awesome .I couldn’t resist but to remove my
clothes and have a plunge into the river and try my swimming skills . thankfully It was not that deep .

The nearest town to kallanai is Trichy about 25 km far .

Sarangapani Temple is
one the main temples devoted to lord vishnu . The temple is located
within the kumbakonam town so we just had to walk for about 10 mintues
from my freinds house to reach It .The temple’s gopuram is again huge
which is full of breathtaking sculptures .The fact that each and every
part of the gopuram has been painted makes it much more imposing and
magnificent.

The temple is about 2000 years old
however the painting works on the temple tower wont give u minute
impression of the temple’s age.

The main shrine has been desinged in
the form of chariot which was visible in many other small temples too
.The chariots were shown being pulled by elephants and horses on either
side.

I dint take the pics of them so u can take a look of it over here and here .

 

The Temple gopuram’s first row has been
filled with sculptures with erotic poses that too on both sides . I
wonder what was in the architects mind when he ordered poses like this
to be sculpted on the temples main gopuram .

Some of the other places i enjoyed visiting  were Tanjore Palace built arounf 1500 AD and Poondi Matha Basilica
which was visited by john pope paul II . Then there was swamimalai
temple , ramasamy temple , thirunageshwaram temple and uppali appan
temple .

There are loads of temples in and
around kumbakonam that i visited which are unique in their own way
.Obviously i cant write about each and everyone of them . So i guess i
should stop here after all u must be getting bored of reading it for so
long .I am sure many of them would have said ” i quit”  midway and
closed this site .

A big thanks to the very few people who have come reading this far ;)  .I wont take any more of ur time .

Signing off

source: http://arvind1187.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/temples-of-the-south/

Abhinav Bindra won India’s first
individual Olympic gold medal today in the men’s 10m air rifle. yes
,that is the first ever gold medal an individual has won . My knowledge
about olympics being almost nil i was pretty shocked when i heard that
it was the first ever individual gold .

A friend of mine had changed his caption in orkut which said “India won the first ever individual gold medal” . I scrapped him saying ” look dude you got it wrong .Perhaps you should remove that ever
, we have won some gold before . He replied me back saying thanks i
will look into that . After an hour he scrapped me again and gave me
the exact news article . I was shocked to know that no one had won a
gold medal for India before , it was indeed the first ever individual gold medal . I replied him saying “sorry for the trouble dude.

Sheeessh ..What an embarrassment ???