[Mikey]

"“He was sent 1,000 miles across the sea to protect us..."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[JimSEA]

Facinating story. It will be good to follow its future.

Government officials arrived in the village soon after, demanding that the statue be handed over to a museum.

More evidence that these tragic events wash the wrong people out to sea.

[dead]

“It is a gift of the tsunami.”

Of course, we really could have used a big hill to stand on, but this is what we got.

[cynblogger]

Wonder if they could find Atlantis, too?

[Alouette]

At least they didn't find a waterlogged Koran.

[nuconvert]

pong

[FairOpinion]

GGG PING -- fascinating find.


"At Mahabalipuram, when the tsunami fell back from the shore it took with it tonnes of sand from the beach, laying bare the forgotten ruins of a 7th-century temple and a rock covered with beautiful carvings of tigers, elephants and horses.

Archaeologists say that the new find indicates a “giant superstructure” that once stood on the beach, dating from the Pallava period from which Mahabalipuram’s other temples also date.

While important, however, they are causing nothing like the fuss of the other tantalising glimpse into the past that villagers here believe the tsunami showed them.

As the waters of the sea receded 500 metres from Mahabalipuram’s beachfront temple, mesmerised observers say that they saw very clearly on the ocean floor a series of pagoda-like temples apparently swallowed up by the sea in the past few hundred years. "

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FairO'.

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[SIDENET]

“We don’t know any Buddhist prayers so we say the Hindu prayers instead and hope that Buddha will understand,”

Well, wasn't Buddha (Guatama Sidhartha) born a Hindu?

:-)

[SunkenCiv]

Clues To Missing Pagodas Found
Times Of India | 7-6-2002 | Akshaya Mukul
Posted on 07/10/2002 4:51:08 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/714100/posts

New Pallava temple complex discovered in Mahabalipuram
Newz | 4/12/05
Posted on 04/13/2005 11:01:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383375/posts

[I_dmc]

South India Overland - Mahabalipuram

[Ff--150]

Like the white buffalo and the flawless red heifer, another "cowinkidink" to get us smiling.

[blam]

The tsunami also tossed 40 million tons of titanium nodules on the coast of India.

[LIConFem]

"Villagers gather before him with offerings of incense and food. "

That's all well and good, but did anyone think to get the poor guy a towel?

It's only Tuesday, and already I'm intolerably silly...

[SunkenCiv]

Just updating the GGG information, not sending a general distribution.

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