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The Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram on the sea front, under a blue sky, with the Commonwealth emblem and the words “Commonwealth Day” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
The Shore Temple, Mahabalipuram
India Post issued two stamps on 14 March 1983, ₹1 and ₹2, for Commonwealth Day. It was the first of the special Commonwealth issues that the Heads of Government agreed at Melbourne in 1981 to make every five years, to make the Commonwealth better known and to support its Fund for Technical Cooperation. The Shore Temple, built of granite on the coast south of Madras in the early 8th century under the Pallava kings, is among the oldest structural temples of South India.
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