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A stone elephant from the Sun Temple at Konark, carved with its harness and trappings, with the words “Konarak Elephant” in Hindi and English, on a 6 paise stamp.
The Konark Elephant
This stamp belongs to the definitive series of 1965 to 1975, India’s everyday stamps of the time, each showing a scene from Indian life, industry, nature or heritage. This value was issued on 1 July 1966. The Sun Temple at Konark, on the coast of Odisha, was built in the 13th century by King Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern Ganga dynasty in the form of a giant chariot of the Sun god, with carved stone wheels and horses. Great stone elephants and horses stand in its grounds. The temple is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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