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DRAVIDIAN STYLE.
Book III.
29th years of his reign ; and these gifts were presented to “ the
stone temple of Rajaraje^vara ” which, we are told, he “ caused
to be built at Tanjor.”1 Now Rajarajadeva Chola, the son of
213. Viewof the Great Temple at Tanjor. (From a Photograph by Middleton
Rayne, Esq., C.E.)
Parantaka II., became king in A.D. 985, and must have completed
the temple some time before 1012 ; as it would take some years
to build, we may safely assume that it was begun about the
end of the 10th century, and completed about 1012.2
1 Ilultzsch's ‘ Soulh Indian Inscrip-
tions,’ vol. ii. pp. 8 and 68. Conf.
‘ Archseology in India,’ p. 25.
2 It is only within the last few years
that we have been abje to obtain any-
thing like a correct list of the Chola
DRAVIDIAN STYLE.
Book III.
29th years of his reign ; and these gifts were presented to “ the
stone temple of Rajaraje^vara ” which, we are told, he “ caused
to be built at Tanjor.”1 Now Rajarajadeva Chola, the son of
213. Viewof the Great Temple at Tanjor. (From a Photograph by Middleton
Rayne, Esq., C.E.)
Parantaka II., became king in A.D. 985, and must have completed
the temple some time before 1012 ; as it would take some years
to build, we may safely assume that it was begun about the
end of the 10th century, and completed about 1012.2
1 Ilultzsch's ‘ Soulh Indian Inscrip-
tions,’ vol. ii. pp. 8 and 68. Conf.
‘ Archseology in India,’ p. 25.
2 It is only within the last few years
that we have been abje to obtain any-
thing like a correct list of the Chola