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366 DRAVIDIAN STYLE. Book III.
and this may be assigned with confidence to the 17th century.
The central pillar is alternately square and octagon, with shafts
attached on the two
side faces, and the
whole very richly
ornamented.
The Tanjor temple
in 1758 was besieged
in vain by Lally from
where now the district
Court stands, and in
1771 the English be-
sieged and took it.
Many of the sculp-
tures show traces of
these sieges, and after
the last the temple
was turned into a
camp for thirty years.
In 1801 - 1802 Raja
vSarfoji had it purified
and re-consecrated.1 2
There is another
temple at the village
of Gangaikonda-
puram, 38 miles to
the north - east of
Tanjor, and 20 miles
south-west from
Chidambaram, that,
so far as is yet known,
must be at least as
old as that at Tanjor, if not older, and of which it would be
very desirable to have a complete survey, as it is said to retain
even more of its original purity of design than the latter.3
Tiruvalur.
The temple at Tiruvalur in Tanjor district,4 about 15 miles
west of Negapattam, contrasts curiously with that at Tanjor
in the principles on which it was designed, and serves to
exemplify the mode in which, unfortunately, most Dravidian
temples were aggregated.
1 Dr. A. Burnell in an article, 12th
November 1877.
2 From ‘Technical Art Series,’ 1894.
3 ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of
Bengal,’ vol. xlix. (1880) pp. 1-4.
4 At Tiruvallur, in Chingalpat district,
is a Vaishnava temple dedicated to Vira-
raghava.
and this may be assigned with confidence to the 17th century.
The central pillar is alternately square and octagon, with shafts
attached on the two
side faces, and the
whole very richly
ornamented.
The Tanjor temple
in 1758 was besieged
in vain by Lally from
where now the district
Court stands, and in
1771 the English be-
sieged and took it.
Many of the sculp-
tures show traces of
these sieges, and after
the last the temple
was turned into a
camp for thirty years.
In 1801 - 1802 Raja
vSarfoji had it purified
and re-consecrated.1 2
There is another
temple at the village
of Gangaikonda-
puram, 38 miles to
the north - east of
Tanjor, and 20 miles
south-west from
Chidambaram, that,
so far as is yet known,
must be at least as
old as that at Tanjor, if not older, and of which it would be
very desirable to have a complete survey, as it is said to retain
even more of its original purity of design than the latter.3
Tiruvalur.
The temple at Tiruvalur in Tanjor district,4 about 15 miles
west of Negapattam, contrasts curiously with that at Tanjor
in the principles on which it was designed, and serves to
exemplify the mode in which, unfortunately, most Dravidian
temples were aggregated.
1 Dr. A. Burnell in an article, 12th
November 1877.
2 From ‘Technical Art Series,’ 1894.
3 ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of
Bengal,’ vol. xlix. (1880) pp. 1-4.
4 At Tiruvallur, in Chingalpat district,
is a Vaishnava temple dedicated to Vira-
raghava.