Mahabalipuram: Ancient Ruined City And Its Marvellous Rock-Cut Architecture In South India

Angela Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Mahabalipuram is a ruined city located on the coast just 60 km south of Chennai. Even looking at the city’s ruins, it is obvious the place represents one of the most famous examples of ancient Indian art and architecture.

Varaha cave temple entrance. Image credit: Vsundar  – CC BY-SA 3.0

This Pallava old site has some of the earliest examples of architecture in South India, rock-cut cave temples, stone carvings, and the shore temple on the beach. During the 7th to 10th centuries, it was a flourishing seaport (one of two) of the Pallava Dynasty of rulers, situated in the southeastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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