**Sairandhiri Draupadi - Pooja Sharma's AT**#5 Admin Note - Pg 123 - Page 103

Originally posted by: Krishnaa_Nair

ooohh pls paro!! os thing is for Arjun AT!!!
this is drau AT!!!
only sweet sweet drau baathein here!!1

Paro lets find out interesting facts or articles about Drau. That way AT will be completed and we will know more about her.

Lol its not offscreen it's shooting pic 😆

Originally posted by: Rushika

Lol its not offscreen it's shooting pic 😆

yaa but something's better than nothing😉

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@myths aaawwwhhh my avis queen!!!!!
thank you!!!!!!!!
muah!!! love you lots!!!!
its superbly awesome dear!!!!

Originally posted by: Krishnaa_Nair

@myths aaawwwhhh my avis queen!!!!!
thank you!!!!!!!!
muah!!! love you lots!!!!
its superbly awesome dear!!!!

Originally posted by: Paro95

yaa but something's better than nothing😉

yeah hi5 to tht!!!!

juz like we ArDI fans live on eyelocks this is something for us!!!!

Mythili its really great. You are always awesome with your creations!!

Draupadi Ratha Mamallapuram Draupadi, the smallest and simplest ratha, is formed as a bangla hut. Its primal energy seems suited to its occupant, the goddessDurga, whose representation decorates the outside and inside of the shrine. Even the shalabhanjikas guarding the doorway are aspects of the Goddess. As often in Indian temples, a makara arch is carved above the doorway.

hese 7th century shrines (or temples; either term is appropriate) were carved during the reign of King Mamalla (Narasimhavarman I, c. 630 - 670), after whom the site is named. Each temple is a monolith, carved whole from an outcropping of rock. (The number of separate formations is a matter of debate; the four north-south temples may have been carved from a single mass.) The temples are unfinished, and so were never consecrated or used for worship.

The nomenclature of the buildings is unfortunate. They are called rathas (pancha rathas means "five chariots"), and named individually after Draupadi and the Pandava brothers, although they have nothing to do with temple carts or the Mahabharata. It would be better to call themvimanas and just number them 1 through 5, but the popular names have stuck.

The view in this photo is from the northwest. In the foreground is a carved lion. Behind the lion, from left to right in the photo, are the Draupadi, Arjuna, and Bhima Rathas (Dharmaraja Ratha is hidden in this photo behind the other structures). To the right is the Nakula Sahadeva Ratha.

The site gives the delightful impression of a city of life-size model buildings, whose variety of roofs, floor plans, and columniation defines a veritable source-book of South Indian temple forms. The architectural elements seen here will appear repeatedly, and with remarkably little variation, over the next 1,000 years of temple building in South India.

The ultimate origin of these forms traces back to wood construction, but opinions differ about whether their direct antecedents were secular or sacred, wooden or stone, buildings. It is likely, due to the advanced design of the Mamallapuram shrines, that temple building had previously undergone a substantial process of development, and that the shrines mark a rapid transition from the earlier wooden temples to later structural

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