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Kailaasa Paramparagatha Suvarnapeetha Sarvajnapeetha Swargapuram Samrajyam

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A tall, ornately sculpted South Indian temple gopuram (tower) rises above a stone gateway, its tiers covered in painted figures and sculptures in turquoise, blue and cream. Stone walls with carved niches flank the arched entrance. In the lower left, a figure in a saffron-orange robe walks toward the gate. At the bottom edge, two people are partly visible, one with dark hair in a bun wearing a light top, and a sliver of a second person. Washed-out light fills the upper sky.2009-08-11A photograph of a tall, richly painted South Indian temple gopuram (gateway tower) seen from below. Its tiers are crowded with polychrome sculptures of deities, dancing figures, lions and bulls in turquoise, red, cream and yellow. A large stone gateway arch stands at the base, with a mango tree and wooden fencing in the foreground and a tiled, blue-and-white sky above. No people are clearly visible in the scene.2009-08-11A tall, colourfully painted gopuram, the tiered entrance tower of a South Indian Hindu temple, rises against a pale sky. Its upper levels are covered with rows of painted sculptural figures in blue, red, green, yellow and white, including deities, animals and attendants. A dark stone gateway with carved pillars sits at the base, with a white car parked on the open paved courtyard to the right and a stone pillared pavilion at the edge of the frame. No people are visible.2012-08-20Kailaasa Paramparagatha Suvarnapeetha Sarvajnapeetha Swargapuram SamrajyamA photograph looking up at a tall, colourfully painted South Indian temple gopuram with tiers of carved stucco figures in pink, green, blue and yellow. A stone-carved arched gateway with pillars sits at its base, behind a white-painted boundary wall. No people are visible; the scene shows only architecture and a glimpse of green trees beyond the gate.2008-07-29A photograph of a tall South Indian temple gopuram, a monumental entrance tower of grey stone whose upper tiers are richly painted in blue, turquoise and pink and crowded with sculpted figures and niches. Below, a dark archway leads into the temple. In the open paved courtyard in front, a tall stone pillar stands in the foreground. A figure in orange-brown robes walks near the entrance, while a woman in a white patterned top and dark skirt stands on the courtyard, and another woman in a white and brown sari walks at the right edge. A lone person in a blue shirt is at the far left edge.2009-08-11August 01 2009 - Kalpataru, Thiruvanaikaval, India2009-08-01July 30 20082008-07-30A colourful multi-tiered gopuram, the ornate entrance tower of a South Indian temple, rises against a pale blue sky. Its upper levels are densely covered with painted stucco sculptures of deities, figures and animals in red, blue, green, yellow and white. The stone base below has a dark recessed doorway with plain brown carved pillars. A bare paved courtyard in the foreground is empty of people. No physical people or identifiable a person figure are visible.2012-07-23Colourful gopuram temple entrance of Kanjanoor Agniswarar temple, tiered tower painted in turquoise, red, yellow and blue with stucco figures, a relief of Nandi bull carrying Shiva and Parvati above the gateway, and orange-and-white pillars flanking the doorway with stone lion guardians. Four men in shirts and trousers stand near the entrance, including one in pink shirt and one in white shirt beside a uniformed police officer. Motorcycles are parked at right and a banner with a painted figure leans on the left side of the courtyard.2012-05-16February 14 20222022-02-14October 24 20062006-10-24