A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.19
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.19
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His son and successor, Rājendra-Choladeva I, surnamed Gangaikonda (1018–35), continued and extended Rājarāja’s victories by sea and land. In memory of the subjugation of the Ganga territory in Mysore, or, as others say, to commemorate his march northwards as far as the Ganges, Rājendra built a new capital, Gangaikonda-Cholapuram, in the Trichinopoly District, and constructed there an enormous artificial lake with an embankment sixteen miles long. The principal temple, de-