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As the first time you see all these colors on the temples, you get a feeling of kitch, but when you start to understand Tamil culture then you know this is the outmost expression of Tamil life. Here you see the top of a Gopuram newly paint at the rock-temple in Tiraparunkundram just outside Madurai. Gopuram means an entrance tower and every temple got four of them orientated to the North-South-West-East. The smaller the Gopurams the elder the temple is.
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