            National Geographic Photo of the Day: Five Raths

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Mahabalipuram, India, 1986 Photograph by James P. Blair Lacy tree
branches cast their shadows on the Five Raths, seventh century
Dravidian shrines to Hindu gods each carved from a single, massive
granite boulder. The temples, located in Mahabalipuram in southern
India, are, from left to right: The Ganesha Rath, the Durga cell, the
Arjana Rath, the Bhima Rath, and the Dharmaraja Rath. The monuments
were named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National
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