Mahabalipuram and its iconic Shore Temple has been the subject of research and scholarship and countless publications for hundreds of years. One might ask, could there be anything left to discover? Sometimes the greatest mysteries are too obvious to be seen. Hidden in plain sight, as it were. During my latest visit my eye fell on one such ‘unseen’ and unrealised mystery. Maybe because of being exposed to the anomalous technology found around the Gizeh Plateau and its Pyramids in Egypt. And the fruitful collaboration with Patricia Awyan and the Khemit School of Ancient Mysticism. I realised some wall sections around the Shore Temple didn’t fit in with well known medieval South Indian temple architecture. The character, size and shape of the stones, the structure of the walls, all point to these walls being of a different make-up and age. These wall sections and structures can be understood as megalithic.
Shore Temple
The Shore Temple proper has been the subject of extensive studies. In the early 90ies excavations by the Archaeological Survey of India uncovered what is thought to be a stepped bath with a Varaha sculpture and miniature shrine on its northern side. In 2001, 2002 and 2003 several diving expeditions were launched to look into the stories about submerged structures. Alok Tripathy headed the ASI exploration. Graham Hancock was involved with the 2002 expedition together with a team from the Scientific Exploration Society, UK and National Institute of Oceanography (NIO). Graham Hancock states on his website about the Shore Temple and the structural remains discovered off-shore
“Shore Temple – this image shows the general look and architecture of the shore temples, and is included here to illustrate the difference between, and the implied lack of contemporaneity of, these and the structures submerged offshore. These latter structures are very different, being of megalithic proportions and appearance.”
Mahabalipuram, Shore Temple, megalithic wall
Right the adisthana or base of the temple wall; left the megalithic wall with dril hole 
, irregular joints and partially covered base
Megalithic walls
The architecture of the Shore Temple belongs unquestionably in the framework of Medieval South Indian temple building. But several sections of wall of surrounding structures do not.
Different types of stone used
Irregular shapes of stones, some cut diagonally
Different sizes of stone, some much larger than found on average in temple walls
Creating typical irregular megalithic joints
Top layer of wall and structure #1 very different from the lower part, pointing to the wall being reused by later construction
Lowest layer of stones is partially covered with sand, the wall continues to unknown depth
Holes drilled (?) in some the stones
One corner stone of wall and structure #2Mahabalipuram Shore Temple, megalithic structure
Corner hugging stone in megalithic wall of structure.
hugs the corner in true megalithic fashion
These megalithic walls belong to two rectangular structures to the North and South of the enclosure wall of the temple proper. And to a stretch of wall that continues from the southern enclosure wall of the temple to a kind of gate structure. The two rectangular structures are situated symmetrically on the Northand South flank of the temple. As both walls can be expected to be founded deeper than the temple it could be concluded these structures may be older than the temple itself.
Unseen and ignored
I trawled the internet for anything relating to these structures and walls. But I have not found any reference to any archaeological exploration or other research done with respect to them. Other
Mahabalipuram Shore Temple megalithic wall
Wall section, unusual shaped stones and joints
heritage enthusiasts I asked had no knowledge of any work done either. It seems
these very interesting structures have been left as they were for centuries. Unseen and ignored.
Temple walls usually don’t attract much attention, unless they carry inscriptions. Having been on several field trips with Patricia Awyan of the Khemit School of Ancient Mysticism, who specialises in Ancient Egypt, has awakened my awareness to megalithic structures and anomalous technology. I have seen countless temple walls. I had not seen any other megalithic type walls in India so far, as far as my memory goes. These walls show the megalithic remains described by Graham Hancock connected to megalithic remains on dry land. It may also tie in with what was probably the earliest deity worshipped in this temple, the Vishnu Jalasayana, Vishnu Resting on the Waters. Scholarship holds that the Vishnu, carved from the bedrock, was worshipped here before the two Shiva shrines with their iconic spires were added by the Pallava king.