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A 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.

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July 30 20082008-07-30A 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.2012-08-20August 01 2009 - Kalpataru, Thiruvanaikaval, India2009-08-01June 05 20122012-06-05May 09 20122012-05-09A 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.2009-08-11Photo looking up at a tall, brightly painted South Indian gopuram temple tower covered in tiers of sculpted figures, pillars and niches in turquoise, green, ochre, pink and white. Several stone deity and guardian figures stand in the entrance archway below. A car window frame and side mirror edge the left foreground against an overcast sky. No people are visible in the scene.2008-07-29May 15 20182018-05-15Kailaasa Paramparagatha Suvarnapeetha Sarvajnapeetha Swargapuram SamrajyamPhoto 11730917