Quite a few days back,Visited a temple which is of hundreds of years old.Santana venugopala swamy temple located at Iravendi village.The temple priest Sri.Nanduri Prasadacharyulusaid that the temple was constructed way back in around 1200 A.D.Mandapam became weak and some parts of it loosen.Anyway withstanding all these hundreds of years is amazing.It is because of sturdy rock construction.
This temple is in a remote area of Burgam pahad constituency.So It had been surviving all through the odds of time.Mandapam and temple built of solid rock plates.Very small number of people used to visit this temple.That's why surroundings of temple seemed very peaceful.
One more Interesting feature is Erotic pictures engraved on the wall of the temple.The postures are no short of any today's porno.I don't understand why this kind of sculpture is seen on the temple walls.I think in those times temples played a role of educational centers. May be,education about sex was not considered as a taboo.Otherwise,how can these sculpture be placed on the sacred temple walls..?
Erotic sculptures on temple gopurams were pieces of creative thinking once. They had only educational values. However, our modern mind-sets sees something diabolic in such creations as we now wear different glasses with different outlooks.
ReplyDeleteHave seen lots of them on Khajuraho temples!
ReplyDeleteCan't be sure what they had on their minds about 1100 years back when these were sculpted...but I believe there must have been some great philosophy behind this...
Great art in any case..without prejudice!
Welcome to my blog Amit..! Yes, we can't guess exactly their motives..!
ReplyDeleteInteresting question!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
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