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...style is most fully realized in the splendid Bṛhadīśvara temple at Thanjāvūr, built about 1003–10 by Rājarāja the Great, and the great temple at Gaṅgaikoṇḍacōḻapuram, built about 1025 by his son Rājendra Cōla. Subsequently, the style became increasingly elaborate—the complex of temple...
in South Asian arts: Medieval temple architecture: South Indian style of Tamil Nadu (7th–18th century) )...which the superstructure rises to a height of 190 feet (60 metres). It has 16 stories, each of which consists of a wall with a parapet of shrines carved in relatively low relief. The great temple at Gaṅgaikoṇḍacōḻapuram, built (1030–40) by the Cōḻa king Rājendra I, is somewhat smaller than the Bṛhadīśvara; but...
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