‘Rock’On Mahabalipuram!
The streets of Mahabalipuram are a photographer’s delight. The city is famous for stone sculptures.┬аYou can get your sculpture done within 3 months and get it delivered to your place just by giving your photograph and your measurements. The murals of deities, elephants, bhuddha’s are a very common sight. It is an eye feast to look at the workmen at work, carving intricate designs on the stones. I got to speak to one such person, Surya , who was diligently making a Ganesh idol. It took him 3 months so far to make the below idol and it would fetch him 35,000 INR. These idols are made ┬аusing the machinery as well as traditional hammer and chisel. It gives altogether a different experience to stand among numerous idols which are going to make it temples where we are not allowed to go even 5 steps nearer.┬аAfter a brief visit to the workshops we headed to the Arjuna’s penance.
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