Madurai (Oct. 12-16)
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We rode by train to Madurai, a Tamil city Sapir had not visited.
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 Sapir: “In every street and market and at every corner and on roofs of the houses stand gods, diverse and strange, images fashioned of wood and stone in wondrous forms, works of manual craftsmanship” |
 
Street shrines |
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Shrine in Trivandrum |
 and at Kodai Lake |
| Some cow images at Shri Meenakshi temple
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Sapir: “Gods of all kinds of tame and wild beast, bird, loathsome animal and creeping thing ”
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Images in Sri Meenakshi Temple and on a |
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