Just back from a trip to Kumbakonam -Tanjore the Temple Town in Tamil Nadu. This is my third trip to the place and every time it’s a new discovery a new dimension that gets added to what little I know about the place. The Very fact that so many big temples are nearby each other heralds the Greatness of its rulers. Each and every temple had a story to say, a story to see. Let me start first with Tanjore Peria kovil.A place visited by lot of us and still we might not have seen the "Man with a Hat" (Might be a statement on the sculptures to state that our people had link to the Western World even before they came to conquer us).This temple built by Raja Raja Cholan ( only the main shrine)
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