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7 Pagodas

Jacob Haafner’s* Mahabalipuram: comparable to the miracles of Egypt.
15 Sep 2015

Jacob Haafner’s* Mahabalipuram: comparable to the miracles of Egypt.

by liesbethpankaja | posted in: Articles | 0

Jacob Haafner was an 18th century traveller from Amsterdam. He wrote extensively about his time in India. Here an excerpt of his description of Mahabalipuram, the first published in the West.   With the dawn we boarded again in our … Continued

7 Pagodas, Coromandel, Jacob Haafner, Mahabalipuram

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