A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.93

c8.93

Further development was effected under the patronage of the powerful Chola kings, Rājarāja and his son Rājendra (985 to 1035), the builders respectively of the Great Temple at Tanjore and its fellow at Gangaikondapuram in the Trichinopoly District. A representative illustration of the Chola buildings is afforded by the relatively small temple of Subrāhmaṇya or Kārtikeya at Tanjore, nearly contemporary with the Great Temple, and considered by Fergusson to be ‘as exquisite a piece of decorative architecture as is to be found in the south of India’ (Plate IX).