Detail from carvings at the top of one of the tall entrance towers, or Gopuram, at the Sri Ranganatha Swamy temple at Trichy, Tamil Nadu in India.

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The state is renowned for the local fashion for painting such carvings with vivid colours which has developed over the last century

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Size: 3831px × 3831px
Location: Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
Photo credit: © pjhpix / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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