Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Statues in Traditional Attire

Two weeks back we traveled to Kumbakonam and Ariyalur, on the behalf of my parent’s desire to take dip in Mahamahamkulam (tank) on the occasion of Mahamaham – a Hindu festival celebrated every 12 years in the Mahamaham tank located in the heart of the south Indian temple town Kumanbakonam. Though it was a brief visit to both the towns, I enjoyed the moment of being travelled together as families (along with my uncle’s family) and staying at a place overnight. Actually it was my father who wanted to go to Mahamham and we didn’t like him let go alone so decide to go ahead as a family and planned the trip in a very short time.

Sculpture of woman
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We took my uncle’s car rather taking our own. Being planned in a time of short span, our car was not ready for a long drive and we were 8 of us travelled in an Innova placing the wheelchair, tightly fixed into boot and couple of bags on lap and between legroom’s. We plan to start our trip at 10 am but were late by 2 hours and had lunch in a restaurant before Mathuranthagam. Named as Balaji Bhavan, has abundance space around the restaurant and parking lot with shelters, gave me a feel of entered a drive-in hotel. Others went in and had their meals and I settle for sambar satham (rice) that was served at car and the taste was somehow enough to eat.

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But what I liked more was the frontage of an abandon park at the rear of the restaurant. As we enter the restaurant, and drive to the parking, I find a traffic police standing in dark and light blue uniform with a sign of stop and the other hand of salute. At glance anyone would think him a real traffic police man, but it was a statue with exact replica. Following him, there were some women statues   representing the different traditional attires of India.  In enriched saris and north Indian salwar, the statues where showy under glowing hot sunshine. But the only woman stature wearing a hat and pinkish gown wasn’t definable. Although I feel the attire resembles Goan style or European tradition.

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Beyond that there was something to attract me and more in numbers… but I’m postponing it to next post. 

11 comments:

GreenComotion said...

Very beautiful traditional statues, Jeevan!
What a great share - I enjoyed the saluting policeman also :)
Have a Happy Week!!
Peace :)

Devilish Angel said...

Lovely statues...

Destination Infinity said...

The policeman looks so interesting and different ;) Nice pics, others too. I have not been to Kumbakonam yet - hope to go there sometime soon.

Destination Infinity

eileeninmd said...

Hello, wonderful collection of statues and photo. Have a happy day!

Anonymous said...

Wonderful statues!

Rajesh said...

Very interesting and unique statues.

Renu said...

lovely statues!

Twilight Man said...

I always liked to see the Hindu statues at the temples in my country. They are often realistic, colourful and attractive.

Indrani said...

Wow! Cool collection.

Locomente said...

How was the crowd in Kumbakonam!?
These statues look interesting!

Jeevan said...

Loco Mente - We went to Kumbakonam 3 days ahead to the Mahamaham day, so it wasn’t much crowded. I stayed at the car in the parking lot about 800meters from tank and only the family members went to take dip in the Mahamaham tank.