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Place South Asian traditions

Prahadisvarar Temple

बृहदीश्वरदेवालयः sa बृहदेश्वर मन्दिर hi இராசராசேச்சரம் கோவில் ta

11th century Tamil Chola Dynasty Temple and UNESCO World Heritage Site

  • Dated from 1010 CE
  • Also called Chola Temple Thanjavur, Big Temple at Thanjavur, Brihadishvara Temple
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Overview

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Figures

Associated figures

Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.

What this means

Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.

Site history & evidence

What is documented here

Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.

Evidence On record What it shows
Site date Dated from 1010 CE On the timeline A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here.
Location Recorded to the site On the atlas A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent.
Dated activity None recorded A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Prahadisvarar Temple, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity.

Nearby

Places nearby

The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.

What this means

Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.

Computed See them together on the atlas

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

3 statements on this record

  • 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

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Text
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Pictures
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Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

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