Love, The Living Spirit of Khajuraho

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Khajuraho temples, now only 24 of the original 85 surviving, are great shrines

of love. Devastating winds, torrential rains, charring summers, rocking lands,

rapacious hands of man, nature's cruelties and heavy booted feet of time

spanning them inch by inch and layer to layer, deprived them much of their vigor

- lips of their smiles, eyes of their glow, bodily curves of their passionate

yearnings and gestures, and figures of their wholesome impact, but despite they

are still amongst the finest works of art that man's creative genius might claim

to have ever created on the earth.

 

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SOURCE: Exotic India, Article of the Month - September 2005

URL: http://www.exoticindia.com/article/khajuraho/