Gangaikondacholapuran is a temple town in Tamil Nadu's eastern region, around 45 miles north and east of Tanjore.
This was one of the temples erected by the Chola monarchs in
the Tanjore area during their reign of terror between the ninth and thirteenth
centuries.
Monarch Rajendra I (r.1014–1042) erected the temple at Gangaikondacholapuran in 1025 to commemorate his march to the Ganges in 1023 after defeating the king of Bengal.
Outside the temple entryway, one of the pictures depicts a
kneeling Rajendra being garlanded by the deity Shiva and his wife Parvati,
presumably to provide Rajendra heavenly support for his claim to the throne.
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