brihadisvara in A Sentence

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    The Brihadisvara Temple.

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    The Brihadisvara temples are situated at Thanjavur, the ancient capital of the Chola kings.

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    In cases, like the Brihadisvara at Thanjavur, the entire temple complex was planned and designed at the same time and executed almost simultaneously.

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    These also came to be built in the precincts of, or adjoining to, earlier built temples that originally did not possess them, as, for example, the Thanjavur Brihadisvara.

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    It may as well be considered to be the precursor of, or the model for, the exquisitely designed and ornately carved Subrahmanya temple unit of Nayaka times, inside the enclosure of the Thanjavur Brihadisvara temple complex.

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    The Subrahmanya temple unit, with vimana ardha- and mukha- mandapas standing in the north- west court of the Brihadisvara temple complex, is a typical example of the Nayaka temple of the ornate variety and a real gem of its kind.

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    The great temple at Thanjavur, appropriately called the Brihadisvara, or the Rajarajesvara after its builder Rajaraja I, conceived as a whole complex on a grand scale and completed by the founder, constitutes the most ambitious undertaking and achievement of the Tamilian architect.

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    This magnum opus of the Cholas started in 1003, and still incomplete in a few of its details, was closely followed, within about twenty years, by another magnificent Chola structure, also called the Brihadisvara, built almost on the same plan and design by Rajendra I Chola( 1012- 1014), the great son and worthy successor of Rajaraja.

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    There was thus a shift in emphasis from the main vimana in the gopura, with the result that while in the earlier temple complexes, as in the Brihadisvara temple at Thanjavur, the sky- line descends from the stupi of the main vimana to the outer of the two front gopuras built almost in the same period as the main vimana, it ascends from the centre to the outermost gopura in the four temple complexes mentioned above.

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