History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c19.s12.13

v1.c19.s12.13

As the date of this hall is known — it took twenty-two years to erect it, 1623 to 1645 — it becomes a fixed point in our chronology of the style.¹ We can, for instance, assert with perfect certainty that the porch to Pârvatî's shrine at Chidambaram (Woodcut No. 221) is certainly anterior to this, probably by a couple of centuries, and, with equal certainty that the corridors at Ramesvaram are contemporary.