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.