*The Shore Temple, Mamallapuram, a watercolor, c.1784* (BL) [*watercolor, 1784*]

"Temple at Mahabalipoor," by William Daniell, c.1799

Source: http://faculty.sxu.edu/~rabe/temple.htm
(downloaded Feb. 2005)

*The Shore Temple, Mahabalipuram, by John Gantz, c.1825* (BL)

*"Temple at Mahabalipoor," from Meyer's Universum, 1841* (a copy of Daniell's)

Source: ebay, Apr. 2006

*"Pagoda Mahavellipore," by Thomas Dibdin, from a drawing by James Fergusson, 1847* (BL)

The Shore Temples, now protected from the sea and supervised by a crow

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dslewis/288060125/
(downloaded Mar. 2007)

A view from the shore side

Source: http://www.baulink.hu/balintker/hatterkep/epites%20tortenet/page_01.htm
(downloaded Nov. 2004)

A closer look at the entryway

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyhay/155442224/
(downloaded Mar. 2007)

The shikharas, or spires

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/reidmix/118130356/
(downloaded Mar. 2007)

A guardian figure, once part of a stone railing

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyhay/155440235/
(downloaded Mar. 2007)