📷 Ankit Bhattacharjee · Pexels
Where in the world
India
Mahabalipuram
Pallava · India
Field notes
- civilizations
- Pallava
- types
- Village
- occupied
- 630 CE — 900 CE
- country
- India
The site
Mahabalipuram is a town on the Tamil Nadu coast of southeastern India, once one of the two major port cities of the Pallava kingdom and named after the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I. Flourishing in the 7th and 8th centuries, it is famous for royal monuments carved from the living rock, including chariot-shaped rathas, cave sanctuaries, the vast open-air relief known as the Descent of the Ganges, and the Shore Temple to Shiva. These sculptures have made Mahabalipuram one of India's most celebrated ancient sites.
