This Siva temple was constructed during the time of Rajendra Chola I (1012-1044 AD). It is entirely possible that the Vishnu temple is also of this time. Main deity ...

Numerous donative inscriptions have been found in this temple, many of them belonging to the Chola era. An epigraph of ...

Tribhuvanai, a small town approximately 23 km from Puducherry on the Villupuram road, is home to a Chola temple that dates back to the reign of Parantaka I (907-955 A.D.), the great-grandfather of ...

It was while working on south Indian temples in the early 1980s that Liesbeth Pankaja Bennink found a document on ancient Chola temples by Gerda Hoekveld-Meijer as part of her doctorate thesis at ...

But as a Vishnu temple that enshrines Varatharaja Perumal exists nearby, the epigraphists with the help of priest Gopalakrishna Madhavan studied the temple. A huge Chola-era stone idol of Lord ...

Rather uniquely, Vishnu is in four postures, standing, sitting, reclining and walking. Considering that Bhoothathalwar (7 century CE) sang in praise of the Lord here, the temple must be of Pallava ...

The Sthala Puranam of this temple states that a childless king named Nanda Chola prayed to God Vishnu for progeny. Vishnu blessed the king that Lakshmi, His consort, would be born to him and at ...