Arjuna's Penance Trial Panel, An UNESCO Heritage Site, Mamallapuram, Chengalpattu District, Tamil Nadu

The visit to this Arjuna’s Penance Panel at  Mamallapuram,  one of the UNESCO Heritage sites of Tamil Nadu, was a Part of “Mamallapuram Heritage Visit” under the title – “Known Mamallapuram, Unknown places - தெரிந்த மாமல்லபுரம், தெரியாத இடங்கள்” organized by SASTRA & Chithiram Pesuthada Groups on 19^th March 2023.

This Arjuna’s Penance Trial Panel is about 200 meters away from Krishna Mandapam. This is very similar to Arjuna’s penance sculptures but unfinished and there is no answer to why this was abandoned. Experts believed that before carving the present Arjuna’s Penance the sculptor might have experimented with this rock.

 

LOCATION OF ARJUNA’s PENANCE TRIAL  PANEL: CLICK HERE

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