Early Chola Temples

by S. R. Balasubrahmanyam | 1960 | 105,501 words

This volume of Chola Temples covers Parantaka I to Rajaraja I in the timeframe A.D. 907-985. The Cholas of Southern India left a remarkable stamp in the history of Indian architecture and sculpture. Besides that, the Chola dynasty was a successful ruling dynasty even conquering overseas regions....

A temple built during the period of his rule of the Chola country (a.d. 949-968) is the Sri Mulas-thanam Udaiyar temple at Bahur near Pondicherry in which there are six inscriptions of his (of the 22nd, 26th and 27th regnal years); and from one of them (of his 26th regnal year, A.R. no. 172 of 1902) we learn that this temple was just then being built of stone.

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