The Real Thing
The weather when we reached Khajuraho temple was enviously beautiful, with cool breeze and mild sunlight stroking us. We earlier made a phone call to Rajesh Tiwari, the guide whom we promised to hire and he was waiting for us at the entrance gate. We were put together as a group of six by Rajesh himself with our consent, for the sake of his guide fee sharing arrangement making it economical for us. The group was of me and my wife, discounting my son, offcourse ; Bhaiya and Didi and a seemingly newly married couple who looked a little disproportionate in terms of body size. The man was a hulk and his wife a petite in true sense. Bhaiya named them Amitabh Bachchan & Jaya Bhaduri.
We were lucky to hire Rajesh. He was a real pro. His descriptions really put life into the stone murals. They are not merely figurines in front of us now. They are as if lively figures awaken by the transcriptions of Rajesh.
We started the tour with a structure which I think is aptly Indian. There lies a single rectangular wall with three distinct domes resembling a temple, a mosque and a pagoda. Symbol of Indian unity. It was built quite later, supposedly in the seventeenth century as revealed by Rajesh.
There are six major and two small temples in this Western cluster, which is the main conglomerate of erotic sculpturing in Khajuraho. Its a sheer eroticism in each and every statuatte we see. Rajesh described them most nonchalantly, with both passion and analysis as well, without a hint of crudeness or impropriety. We initially chuckled at the impassive oration of Rajesh, including the ladies and my my son aping us. But later on we got so absolved with it, that we vaguely forgotten that we were seeing figures which otherwise we term it as pornography. Sex generally in our crude mind is dirty and lustful and we forget that it is both biological science and social science as well, as remarked by Rajesh and aptly nodded aand greed by us in a trance.
The Lakshmana Temple and Jagdamba Temple has the most 'on your face' eroticism with varuios modes of sexuality : Same sex, opposite sex, animals, oral, hands, self and any of wild imagination. But to our overwhelming astonishment these astounding nudity do not look vulgar, nasty or flashy, anymore. We were rather dumbfounded and flabbergasted by the sheer pure art. The reactions I expressed here I guess, it might be impossible to believe for a person who has never visited Khajuraho and would doubt my emotions. That is the price reason I consider now, why a visit to Khajuraho is a must for every one. But taking along a teenaged sibling is not recommended offcouse.
I am leaving behind with some of the most jaw-opening and stuningly erotic sculptures your could ever imagine and enjoy them with your self imposed interpretations. The next time it should be viewing in person with a guide like Rajesh I must say.
We were lucky to hire Rajesh. He was a real pro. His descriptions really put life into the stone murals. They are not merely figurines in front of us now. They are as if lively figures awaken by the transcriptions of Rajesh.
We started the tour with a structure which I think is aptly Indian. There lies a single rectangular wall with three distinct domes resembling a temple, a mosque and a pagoda. Symbol of Indian unity. It was built quite later, supposedly in the seventeenth century as revealed by Rajesh.
There are six major and two small temples in this Western cluster, which is the main conglomerate of erotic sculpturing in Khajuraho. Its a sheer eroticism in each and every statuatte we see. Rajesh described them most nonchalantly, with both passion and analysis as well, without a hint of crudeness or impropriety. We initially chuckled at the impassive oration of Rajesh, including the ladies and my my son aping us. But later on we got so absolved with it, that we vaguely forgotten that we were seeing figures which otherwise we term it as pornography. Sex generally in our crude mind is dirty and lustful and we forget that it is both biological science and social science as well, as remarked by Rajesh and aptly nodded aand greed by us in a trance.
The Lakshmana Temple and Jagdamba Temple has the most 'on your face' eroticism with varuios modes of sexuality : Same sex, opposite sex, animals, oral, hands, self and any of wild imagination. But to our overwhelming astonishment these astounding nudity do not look vulgar, nasty or flashy, anymore. We were rather dumbfounded and flabbergasted by the sheer pure art. The reactions I expressed here I guess, it might be impossible to believe for a person who has never visited Khajuraho and would doubt my emotions. That is the price reason I consider now, why a visit to Khajuraho is a must for every one. But taking along a teenaged sibling is not recommended offcouse.
I am leaving behind with some of the most jaw-opening and stuningly erotic sculptures your could ever imagine and enjoy them with your self imposed interpretations. The next time it should be viewing in person with a guide like Rajesh I must say.
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