Arunachalesvara Temple in the town of Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. With four gateway towers or gopurams and many shrines. Hindu temple or pagoda to the deity Shiva on the Coromandel coast, India. Temple ou Pagode des Gentils de la cote de Coromandel. Copperplate engraving by Jean-Baptiste Marie Poisson after an illustration by Pierre Sonnerat from his Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine (Voyage to the East Indies and China, Dentu, Paris, 1806.

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