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Sri Rangam

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The Raj Gopuram at the temple city known as Sri Rangam.	An example of the painted statuary adorning many of the temple towers at Sri Rangam.	Another of the many gopurams at Sri Rangam.
The entrance to the Samadhi Shrine for Ramanujacharya, one of the most important of the spiritual figures in India's spiritual heritage.	At one of the pillared halls at Sri Rangam. Each of the pillars is carved from a single stone.	Sri Rangam's great white gopuram.
Us with Andar, the temple elephant, and Murali Bhattar, one of the head priests at the temple, and with the elephant's mahut.	One of the ancient frescoes at the temple, depicting Lord Ranganath reclining on Shesha.	An unforgetable stroll at sunrise to Murali Bhattar's home along the residential avenues within the temple precincts.
Murali Bhattar shows us his family tree, with ten generations of priests at Sri Rangam.	Andar's mahut feeds him some cookies which we bought him at Murali Bhattar's suggestion.	Andar the Vaishnava temple elephant and his Shaivite mahut. At both Sri Rangam and at Chidambaram we witnessed admirable non-sectarianism where we least expected it.
At Andar's quarters, we were treated by witnessing a puja done by Andar's mahut. (The rice cooker and saw in the back are not for the puja.)	Darshan of Lord Rama at a recently renovated temple in the Sri Rangam compound.	A view of some of the many gopurams at Sri Rangam.

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