The Colas c35.8

c35.8

Jouveau-Dubreuil observed: ‘The pagoda of Bāhūr represents the style of the Pallava epoch, at the beginning of the ninth century; and the temple of Tanjore dates from the commencement of the eleventh century. During this interval of two centuries were constructed monuments of an intermediate style’, and proceeded to illustrate that style by a study in some detail of the temple of Śrīnivāsanallūr (Muśiri taluq, Trichinopoly district). But the period of the intermediate style may be further divided into two—an earlier phase of transition from the Pallava to the Cōḷa style, a period marked by a number of small and medium temples which share the Pallava