Unveiling of 10th-century Athagur inscription honoring a dog named Kali highlights the importance of preserving historical ...

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.

For a medieval Indian ruler like Rajaraja Chola, building a great temple wasn’t necessarily just a devotional act. You see this in the inscriptions, where it’s not just the king who’s making ...

The Brihadishvara temple, built in the 11th Century by King Rajaraja Chola, is a Unesco World Heritage site It's 1000 CE - the heart of the Middle Ages. Europe is in flux. The powerful nations we ...

Over the years, he scanned through volumes of texts and inscriptions ... His latest venture is a three-part series on Chola temples, including ones in Pudukkottai and Nagapattinam regions ...

And in the inscriptions, it seems highly likely that these actually were Chola army divisions that once incorporated men from many different professions who, after the decline of the Cholas ...

Tirunallam/Konerirajapuram is a temple he has visited; it has a fascinating Chola inscription detailing of how many different employees it had—staggering for a small temple. The Cholas used ...