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Beautifully carved Hindu temple, 13th-century Kakatiya style

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English: Nagulapahad (Nagulapadu) village is about 25 kilometers south of Suryapet city. Several inscriptions suggest that it was a prosperous, major town before the 14th-century, on the east bank of Musi river.

The village has two major historic, intricately carved but mutilated temples from the 13th-century. They are near one another but with a later era mosque between them that was partly built from parts and masonry from the damaged temples. The mosque is now also in ruins, abandoned with most of its structure lost, new slabs inserted to stabilize it.

This Shivalaya temple is built on a platform with enough space for circumambulation. It has three entrances, a mandapa and inscriptions.

The temple is notable for its beautiful external panels of Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism and Vedic deities. Many panels show secular scenes and legends from the Hindu epics. Though mutilated and damaged to varying extent, the discrete frames and the iconographic details in this temple ruins are exquisite.
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Author P. Madhusudan
Camera location16° 59′ 51″ N, 79° 36′ 52″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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