Gangaikonda cholapuram kali amman pictures

Temples have been built in stone in the Tamil region since the sixth-seventh centuries, both rock-cut monuments excavated from the living rock and structural ones.

This coincided with the height of the Chola Empire, with expansionist conquests under Rajaraja and his son and successor Rajendra (1014-44) to the whole of south India and overseas to northern Sri Lanka, the Maldives and even Sumatra.

The city became a Chola settlement from c.850, but was a major political centre only from RajarajaвЂ™s reign with the foundation of this monumental new temple and surrounding royal centre. Thanjavur lies at the head of the Kaveri delta from where various tributaries provide the low-lying lands of central Tamilnadu with a near constant supply of water that has enabled intensive rice agriculture and supported a dense population for over a thousand years. вЂLiving LegaciesвЂ™, a film on Chola temples вЂCarving a global icon: The Nataraja bronze and CoomaraswamyвЂ™s legacyвЂ™, by Dr Sharada SrinivasanД¦. вЂThe Great Chola TemplesвЂ™, by Dr Crispin BranfootДЈ. Over the height of the Chola dynastyвЂ™s power in southern India, at least three hundred stone temples were built, among which the great temples at Thanjavur, Gangaikondacholapuram and Darasuram are often considered their finest artistic achievements for the monumentality of conception, architectural grandeur, powerful sculpture and fine painting.Дў. The period from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries in southern India is regarded as one of the most creative and formative periods of Tamil culture, inspiring some of the finest literary and artistic achievements. By RajarajaвЂ™s reign (985-1014), the Chola kings had come to be the rulers of one of the foremost of IndiaвЂ™s temple-building polities from their power-base in the Kaveri delta region of central Tamilnadu. Dr Crispin Branfoot On 22nd April 1010, the twenty-fifth regnal year of the Chola king Arunmolivarman вЂ“ better known by his title Rajaraja, вЂthe King of KingsвЂ™ вЂ“ installed a gold-plated pot-finial on the summit of a monumental new temple in the city of Thanjavur, consecrating one of the grandest temples ever built in India.

Gangaikonda cholapuram kali amman pictures