The Archaeological Survey of India's own official account of the Great Living Chola Temples World Heritage Site records that Emperor Rajaraja I, who reigned from 985 to 1012 CE, built the Brihadisvara temple at Thanjavur and inaugurated it in his nineteenth regnal year, corresponding to 1009 to 1010 CE, naming it Rajesvara Peruvudaiyar after himself, and describes it as the most ambitious structural temple built of granite and a landmark in the evolution of building art in South India.
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The Archaeological Survey of India's own official page for the Great Living Chola Temples World Heritage Site, the national heritage body responsible for the monument's protection since 1922, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable national heritage institutional records, used here for Rajaraja I's regnal dates and the temple's 1009 to 1010 inauguration, corroborated by K.A. Nilakanta Sastri's academic history of South India. Citation
PublisherArchaeological Survey of India
URLhttps://asi.nic.in/pages/WorldHeritageCholaTemples
Source TypeHeritage body
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