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Chola Temple Donors: The Broker Women of Medieval South India
Who actually funded the great Chola temples? Inscriptions reveal a surprising answer: thousands of ordinary women—from queens to courtesans to farmers' wives—who donated land, gold, and livestock. This episode follows the trail of stone records from the Brihadeeswarar Temple to the Darasuram complex to uncover how women accumulated wealth, navigated legal systems, and secured their names in eternity. We meet figures like Nangai Pudi, a ninth-century devadasi who gifted a lamp stand, and Adigal Mahadevi, a merchant's widow who endowed a whole shrine. Their inscriptions offer rare…
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