The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s4.24
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s4.24
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c35.s4.24
The earliest of the remarkable monolithic temples known as the Seven Pagodas at Māmallapuram, namely that now called the Dharmarāja Ratha, was the work of Narasimhavarman, who bore the title of Mahāmalla, or 'great champion', from which the name of the place is derived.² The other similar shrines were wrought under the orders of the same king and his successor down to about the time when Kānchī was taken by its hereditary enemies.³ That calamity probably explains the fact that some of the shrines were never completed.