Volume 8, Issue 1

Temple Land and Administration in Tamil Nadu (With Special Reference to Thanjavur District)

Author

S.Akila, Research Scholar, Post Graduation & Research Department of History Kunthavai Natchiyaar Government Arts College for Women (Autonomous) (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli) Thanjavur, India

Abstract

By 7th Century AD., Substantial temples in stone came to be constructed in South India. The earliest well known Hindu temples in South India are those of Mamallapuram in Chenglepet District.The gradual development of temples in the Southern part of India can be traced during the last thirteen or fourteen centuries. At the end of the 6th Century A.D, an urge for rock-cut temples had spread everywhere over the Pallava Kingdom of Kanchi...

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