Indra’s Ratha in Melakkadambur, a Chola Masterpiece
Figure 27. Shri Amritagateshvara temple in Melakkadambur, Tamil Nadu, India.
Parvataraja, the personified Himalaya Mountain, on the North wall of the shrine.
With the Indian sphinx or purushamriga (human-beast) above his crown.
Granite.
Approximately 1100 CE.
Photo by Raja Deekshithar, 11 February 2007.