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Among the several domed conical stones found along the Indus Valley, two objects stand out—a small tapered cone seated on a round base and a dome-shaped cylinde ...
Muraliraja, Muthukrishnan, and Sudharsan — from the Scheduled Caste (SC) community as the main accused in the case of human faeces being dumped into an overhead drinking water tank in a Dalit ...
The most famous such sculpture, in bronze, was at Chidambaram—and Sembiyan ... The style made it immediately clear if a temple had been built by Sembiyan Mahadevi. Thanks to her patronage ...
The most famous landmark of Maviddapuram is the historic temple dedicated to Lord Muruga ... and Tamil studies at Annamalai University in Chidambaram and finally graduated after intermittent ...
Chidambaram is about 65 kms from Pondicherry ... Rajendra wanted to emulate the temple built by his father after his victory in a campaign across India that Chola era texts state covered Karnataka, ...
In all of her temples, a stone Nataraja sculpture is positioned in a grand niche facing south—just as the deity at Chidambaram does. No previous Chola ruler, king or queen, had done this. The style ...
The Govindarajaswamy Temple in Tirupati, built in the 12th century and consecrated ... During an invasion of the Govindaraja Perumal Temple in Chidambaram, the Utsava Murti (processional deity ...
Chants of “Om Linga, Om Linga” resonated as barefoot Hindu pilgrims, many balancing offering-filled baskets and clay pitchers ...
Chidambaram said the income tax proposals in the Budget presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman benefited not just the middle class but also the rich and the richest in the world.
Thutmose II was the fourth ruler of the illustrious ancient Egyptian 18th dynasty, which included Tutankhamun. Now, the ...