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	Thanjavur Summary
		Located on the Vedavar River near the head of the agriculturally rich Kaveri Delta, the city first gained prominence in the tenth through twelfth centuries under the Chola dynasty.
		In about 1010, the famed Brihadishvara Temple was erected, and it is still the main attraction in the city.
		The pyramidal stone tower rises to a height of 66 meters and is capped by a massive stone and a gold pot finial that was donated by the royal founder, Rajaraja I (reigned 985–1014).
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	Ksetra Sampada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This means the entire interlocking of the devotional, artistic, geographic, social and economic aspects of a particular centre, and the factors acting as its renewals and continuity.
		An attempt has been made to document the temple by examining scale drawings of its ground plans, elevations and sections; work was also done on the sculptures, paintings and inscriptions of the outer and inner walls of the temple.
		An exhibition of the drawings and photographs, titled “Earth to Eternity”, was held; it was followed by a seminar titled “Brihadishvara: the Monument and the Living Tradition”.
	ignca.nic.in /ks_body.htm (795 words)

	temple tour south india, travel packages shiv temples india, tour south indian temples, temples of south india, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The water linga is permanently immersed in a small tank that is fed by a natural spring.
		Perhaps the greatest Shaivite temple in southern India is the Brihadishvara temple in Thanjavur, which was built by the Chola dynasty between the 9th and 13th centuries AD.
		Its massive Linga, 12 feet high, is placed beneath the tallest gopura of any southern temple, and its murals and bronzes are among the finest examples of Shaivite art.
	www.primetravels.com /shiv.shtml (775 words)

	HINDU TEMPLE: towers and "pyramids": vimana, gopura
		The pyramid (vimana) over the main shrine (right) and the Muruga shrine (left) of the Brihadishvara in Tanjore, TN.
		The temple through the entrance gate, Brihadishvara in Tanjore, TN.
		Entrance gate (pyramid, gopura) of the temple, Brihadishvara in Tanjore, TN.
	www.cbmphoto.co.uk /Tgopura.html (326 words)

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		Nearby visit the enormous Srirangam temple and then continue to the Chola citadel of Tanjore.
		Visit the World heritage Brihadishvara temple- simply unparalleled!
		Day to be spent completely at leisure or to soak in the unique Dravidian cultural atmosphere of this ancient temple city.
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	Art forms of India
		Nayaka period painting can still be seen at Madurai, Alagarkoil and Chidambaram.
		The Brihadishvara at Tanjore boasts a long sequence of paintings, though these are probably to be dated to the succeeding Maratha period, or even later.
		Yet other examples are to be seen in the Tyagaraja temple at Tiruvarur (see map on P. 229), where well preserved and still brightly coloured ceiling paintings are preserved in one of the later mandapas.
	www.indiansaga.com /art/southindia.html (550 words)

	Welcome to TheBigTemple.com!
		These sites, which are not easy to visit, were photographed 50 years ago by the Koviloor Swamy.
		He used an ancient 5"x4" Linhof camera for the Archaelogical Survey of India (ASI) The best paintings are found inside the vimana in the Brihadishvara temple at Thanjavur.
		The delicate nature of the paintings and the gradual erosion due to pollution have resulted in the ASI locking them up.
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		Day 6: We travel further for our first visit to the immense temple complexes of southern India, this time to the friendly Temple City of Kumbakonam.
		We first visit the Brihadishvara temple on the way, a remote complex dating from the 11th century.
		The trip takes seven hours, as we stop for lunch and a visit a few places on the way.
	www.xs4all.nl /~shoestri/english/southindia2000.doc (2535 words)

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