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Temple of the Day :- 04 July 2022 Temple in Frame :- Shore Temple, Mahabalipuram, Tamilnadu Featured From  :- @mysoretusker Follow and Tag @templesofsouthindia and Use  #temples_of_southindia for Feature Temple by the Sea….  Daybreak on the Coromandel Coast paints the ancient temple of a bygone era in a golden hue. These are some of the earliest surviving structural – as against rock cut – temples in India dating to early 8th century CE and built between 700 -728 CE. Overlooking the shore of Bay of Bengal along the Coromandel Coast at Mahabalipuram or Mamallapuram, these granite structures are a product of the Pallava dynasty and built during Narasimhavaraman II. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mahabalipuram has a hoary past traceable to the earliest times of the first millennium. There is reference to it in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea authored by an unknown Greek in the first century. Ptolemy refers to it as Malange while there is a reference to it by the Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang of the 7th century. Fast forward to the modern times and European mariners who landed on the coast called it the Seven Pagodas (akin to Black Pagoda for the Sun Temple at Konark) perhaps alluding to a series of temples that stood on the coast and could be seen from the sea. But it is believed that these temples have been submerged by sea. The recovery of artefacts - believed to be vestiges of an old temple - after the 2004 tsunami, lends credence to this belief. #unescoworldheritage #raw_historic #raw_all_india #shoretemple #dekhoapnadesh #templearchitectureofindia #ancientindianarchitecture #tamilnadutemples #templesofindia #temples_of_southindia #worldheritagesite #unescoworldheritagesites #igtravel #mamallapuram #monumentsofindia #discoverindiamagazine #hindutemples #tamilnadutourism #indiantravelgram #mahabalipuramtemple #mahabalipuram #ig_india #ig_tamilnadu #instaindia #storiesofindia #insta_india #ig_indiashots #cornersofmyworld #india_clicks #india_gram