The practice of stone inscriptions by the Pallavas and Cholas at Uttiramerur is one of the great legacies of that era.
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Arasavalli Suryanarayana Temple – Part 1
As control of Hindu temples by the government gets more widespread, temple priests find it harder and harder to continue their ancestral occupation.
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Jina Kanchi – The forgotten Jain legacy of Kanchipuram
Home to the oldest living Jain traditions in Tamil Nadu, Jina Kanch dates back to the Pallava king, Simhavarman, in 550 CE.
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‘Flight of the Deity’ from Martand Temple, Kashmir – Part 3
Tilak was banned, janeu was forbidden, Hindu clothes could no longer be worn, temples could not be built or renovated...and of course a foreign tongue and script rode roughshod over Kashmiri and Sharada, despite such desperate attempts at usurping a beauteous land from its original inhabitants, it did not perish.
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‘Flight of the Deity’ from Martand Temple, Kashmir – Part 2
The night was endless, and the ground shaky, the waters seemed to invite her to jump in and not resurface ever, yet dawn broke with its promise for brightness, shining its orbs on the cragged edges of the Zabarwan, and as she looked towards Mahadev’s peak, she prayed for his assistance.
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The Eteranal Dasas of Sree Padmanabha Swamy – V (Making of Modern Travancore – Continued)
The modern state of Kerala owes a lot to the past rulers of the region.
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The Eternal Dasas of Sree Padmanabha Swamy – IV (Making of Modern Travancore)
This period in the history of the Travancore kingdom set the stage for the modern state of Kerala.
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Rock-cut temple and Jain-reliefs at Kazhugumalai, Tamil Nadu
The majestic Pandya rock-cut Shiva temple looks like a scale model of the Kailash temple at Ellora with rows of magnificent Jain bas-reliefs also present.
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A Timeline of Ayodhya – Part 3
Ayodhya's significance has never waned in the minds of Hindus as they have continued their struggles to reclaim it for centuries on end.
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Why didn’t Hindus give up in their fight for Ram Mandir?
The scars from centuries of violence refused to heal which is why the fight for Ram Janmabhoomi never died down.