Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/23

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Subject: [Leica] Travels
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:13:42 +0530
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Luis,
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Lluis Ripoll
<lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Jayanand,
>
> You really have great treasurys in India and very good pictures, the second
> one is very amazing.
>
> Thanks for showing and sharing!
>
> cheers
> Lluis
>
>
> El 22/01/2011, a las 14:59, Jayanand Govindaraj escribi?:
>
>  Three from the state of Gujarat in Western India.
>>
>> The first is photo of the great temple of Somnath, the moon god, besides
>> the
>> Arabian Sea in western India. The temple is historically and religiously
>> very significant - it was sacked and destroyed six times between 725AD and
>> 1701AD by Muslim invaders and rulers, and rebuilt six times. The present
>> temple was built after independence in 1947 and is called the Seventh
>> Temple. The security is considerable - because of its history, it is a
>> prime
>> target for Islamic terrorists, who would love to blow it up again:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/_1060359-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> To emphasise the mix that is India, 70 km away from Somnath is Junagadh,
>> which was, prior to independence an Islamic state. It has a very
>> interesting but rather poorly maintained fort - here is a tourist couple
>> relaxing there:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/_1060489-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> The last photo is of a Sun Temple in Modhera, Gujarat built in 1026. It
>> was
>> sacked by Allaudin Khilji in 1296 - he was also responsible for the third
>> destruction of Somnath. Luckily for us, he did not destroy the temple
>> completely. Since Hindus will not worship a defaced idol, he just broke a
>> limb from every depiction of a God in the friezes and sculptures adorning
>> the temple, thus making it unfit for worship. The temple has the most
>> beautiful sculptures possible, though like all Sun Temples, a few of them
>> depict graphic sex which had a deep religious significance, lesbians and
>> group sex included! It is not a large complex, but it is like a small
>> jewel.
>> It is built so that the first rays of sunlight on the May and September
>> equinoxes illuminate the (missing) deity in the  inner sanctum:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/_1060726-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> C&C, as always, welcome
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
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