Sembiyan Mahadevi, a 10th-century Chola queen, reshaped Hinduism through temple patronage and art. Her vision turned Nataraja into the most iconic symbol of Shiva.

Divine Designs: Exploring the Legacy of Tamil Temple ArchitectureThis is the story of four friends (cousins) with lots of ...

On this day, devotees don vibrant yellow, perform pujas, and visit Saraswati temples to seek blessings for wisdom and enlightenment. Meanwhile, believers perform Saraswati Puja at home and in ...

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England showed glimmers, particularly through Buttler, Archer and the pace of Wood, but India were formidable in all facets of their play. And if that was a 7 out of 10 performance from Varun ...

The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between Chidambaram and Chennai. Load Map What is the travel distance between Chennai, India and Chidambaram, India? How many miles ...

The Brihadishvara temple, built in the 11th Century by King Rajaraja Chola, is a Unesco World Heritage site [Getty Images] ...

Yet that year, on the other side of the globe, an emperor from southern India was preparing ... Sembiyan prayed to Nataraja, a hitherto little-known form of Hindu god Shiva as the King of Dance, and ...

Yet that year, on the other side of the globe, an emperor from southern India ... to Nataraja, a hitherto little-known form of Hindu god Shiva as the King of Dance, and all her temples featured ...

Yet that year, on the other side of the globe, an emperor from southern India was preparing to build the world's most colossal temple. Completed just 10 years later, it was 216ft (66m) tall, assembled ...

New Delhi: The Cholas were pioneers of temple politics ... a spectacular Chola-era Nataraja—because so many of them were produced. And it is so ironic to me that we know what an important symbol ...

In this context Bhagwat specifically mentioned that Sri Ram connects north to south India. It is important to understand the civilisational context of the movement for constructing a Ram Temple at ...