I stand corrected. Apparently, it isn't just Khajuraho, which is the only place where I've seen similar images. I would be interested to learn the rationale for the explicit sexual images in these temples. > --- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This author has apparently taken Khajuraho and > extrapolated from that. > > > > Since I pointed out that I have seen erotic images > of > deities in the temple friezes of Goa, let me provide > some pictoral evidence of this from the famous > Kamat's > Potpouri website: > > http://www.kamat.org/picsearch.asp?search=Erotica&PageNo=1 > > I remember having seen such images in at least a > couple of Goan temples, the Mahalaxmi temple in > Bandoda most likely being one of them. In the above > weblink Kamat provides 169 photographs of erotic > temple images from many temples dispersed all over > India, including the Partagal temple in Goa. You > will > find pictures from temples in Bhatkal, Hosanagar, > Barsur, Nad-Kalse, Ikkeri, Bhuvaneshwar, etc. > displaying a wide range of erotica. > > Cheers, > > Santosh > >