Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, Somnath is just a couple of hours from Gir, so you can see the last redoubt of the Asiatic Lion as well. Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad On 25-Jun-2012, at 9:04 PM, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote: > dear sir, > what lovely photos!! > many thanks :-) > i was at Somnath last in 1979 and there were no commandos guarding it then > as islamic terrorism was still not the daily reality it is now. > it's on the list for my next visit to india. > > i took photos in 1979 with a little Agfa Click III :-)) > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/4312014121/ > > but i have no idea where they are now. > bharani > > > > Message: 50 > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:53:04 +0530 > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Unpublished: Oh! > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Message-ID: > <CAH1UNJ1jZMKCEmdiaP1WDzk-+u+VRcQyxXp_rAEDNvB5AW_eGg at > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Somnath still has crack commandos guarding it, as it is a prime target for > Islamic Terrorists - having sacked it 6 times, the temptation to go for a > 7th is at times irresistible to them. Of course its location also meant > that any invader coming to India by the sea coast was bound to make > landfall there: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/_1060359-Edit.jpg.html > > In the same state as Somnath, Gujarat, there is a jewel of a Sun Temple > (like Konark), called Modhera which has explicit sculptures inside the > inner sanctum - in earlier days we Hindus were not the prudes we have > become, and considered sex a normal activity, a symbol for fertility and > longevity of the species, and something to be worshipped. It was sacked in > a most ingenious way by Allauddin Khilji - he just chopped the hands or > feet off all the idols of Hindu Gods and Godesses in the complex knowing > that Hindus do not worship desecrated idols. The net effect is that it is > pretty well preserved even today. Here is an outside view: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/_1060726-Edit.jpg.html > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:30 AM, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> dear philippe, >> please do post your photos of khajuraho temple to the lug. >> it will harm neither us nor the temple :-) >> >> we in india learnt that having a temple become famous is a bad thing >> from the experience of Somnath Temple on the west coast in gujarat. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnath >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_of_Ghazni#Destruction_of_Somnath_Temple >> >> we had to rebuild it 6 times after it was destroyed by invading muslims 6 >> times. >> the present 6th temple is very photogenic too but nowhere like khajuraho >> temple, >> which was saved by it's location in the deep interior of india. >> :-) >> bharani >> >> >> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:48:14 +0200 >> From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Unpublished: Oh! >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Message-ID: <BBAF9C6E-90CE-4779-A6FC-1C1C3BE76CFF at sfr.fr> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes >> >> Yes! >> >> I never dared to post the photos I took there a long while ago - the >> place has a certain magic in it, and young couples get there for their >> honeymoons I remember talking to some. This is sure another culture :-) >> >> Philippe >> >> Le 23 juin 12 ? 03:06, scleroplex a ?crit : >> >>> nice exposure! >>> >>> to see nude statues in india we go to the temple >>> :-) >>> >>> >> >> > http://a10.idata.over-blog.com/2/29/15/48/Inde/083-KHAJURAHO-Erotique-copie-1.jpg >>> >> >> > http://www1.sulekha.com/mstore/anandolan/albums/khajuraho,madhya%20pradesh,india/DSCF0029.JPG >>> >>> bharani >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information