No words to describe the trip. It was too good .We had good pow wows discussing PS, SS & trying to defend our favorite characters. Udayar came up & lots of discussions followed. (Vijay you missed it). I have grown up in Madras but all the places we visited were new to me Thanks to the organisers. Overall an Awesome trip says Ramakrishnan. As we are busy with some work till 20th the photos will be uploaded inparts. Thiru , how do I upload photos directly on our webpage. I've not talked about the function on 15th'cos its already been done by many. I enjoyed the function immensely, esp. the honor of Ponnadai Porthal to both the granddaughters of Kalki.
wonderful and thanks for sharing. you must have noticed postings on tiger belly bootha gana - from pullamangai, mallai penance panel. have been collecting these guys and was over joyed to see one more ( the photo titled buddhist/jain influence) - the centre Gana in the bootha rekha - has a lovely tiger belly. must be an important guy to feature in pallava sculpture.
tks again for sharing vj http://www.poetryinstone.in Here the language of stone surpasses the language of man
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Shobha Ramakrishnan
I did remember reading your post. The only difference is that in the shore temple Buddha faces, ganas & Ganapathi are available on the gudus. In the Marakanam, Boomishwarar temple, its was only Buddhas in all the gudus except for this one, while Ganas were part of the vimana and were not in the gudus.