Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/22

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Subject: [Leica] Travels
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:23:35 +0530
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Montie, Michiel, Jim, Ric, George, Philippe & Alastair,
Thanks for looking.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:56 AM, <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote:

> If I watch enough of this I won't need to travel to India ;-) Great
> history lovely shots, the b/w look a bit over sharpened to me eye. I'm a
> softie ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Alastair
>
> > 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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