Krishna's Butter Ball
Giant granite boulder perched on a steep rock slope, seemingly defying gravity for centuries.
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This guide to Krishna's Butter Ball in Mahabalipuram, down the coast from Chennai, is about a round granite boulder that looks a breath away from rolling off its slope. It follows the people who decided it should go, from a Pallava king of the seventh century to a British governor of Madras in nineteen oh eight and his team of elephants. Along the way it turns to the weathering that shaped the rock, and to the names it has carried. Best heard standing at the foot of the slope, looking up.
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