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The Chola royalty zealously built many stone temples all over their kingdom. The Rajarajesvaram is the grandest of all Chola temples. The exact year in which Rajaraja I (AD 985-1014) commenced the massive exercise of constructing Rajarajesvaram is not recorded anywhere. Apart from conceptualizing…
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1. Brihadisvara Legends
Fig. 1: Brihadisvara temple (Image taken by Debhashish Bannerjee)
There are a number of legends associated with the temple. The two given below are the most well-known ones.
1. Karuvur Devar…
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Balasaraswati's Presidential Address at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Tamil lsai Sangam, Madras, December 21, 1975, translated from the Tamil by S. Guhan.
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