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Chola Temples as Living Documents: Inscriptions and Community
In this episode, we step away from the battlefield and the bronze to read the walls themselves. The Chola temples of South India — Brihadeeswarar at Thanjavur, the great gopurams of Chidambaram — are not just monuments; they are handwritten archives. We explore the inscriptions that cover their stone surfaces: records of land grants, tax exemptions, village assembly decisions, and the names of ordinary people who built and maintained these sacred spaces. We meet the temple administrators and the devadasis, the dancing women whose lives were woven into the ritual calendar, and we look at how…
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