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What is the Rock Fort Temple?
Did the Tamil build the Rock Fort Temple
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What is the Rock Fort Temple?
This two part temple complex comprise of
1.Shiva temple (Thayumanaswamy)
2.Pillayar (Ganesh) temple
The Shiva temple is the biggest one and is carved in the middle of the rock while the Ganesh temple was carved at the top of the rock.
This temple was used as military fortification by the Vijayanagar emperors and later by the British during the Carnatic wars. This temple is 83m tall which was built by the Pallavas and later finished by the Nayaks of Madurai under the Vijayanagara empire.
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Rockfort or Ucchi Pillayar koil, is a combination of two famous 7th century Hindu temples, one dedicated to Lord Ganesh and the other dedicated to Lord Shiva, located a top of a small rock in Trichy, India. Geologically the 83m high1 rock is said to be one of the oldest in the world, dating over 3 billion years ago, and mythologically this rock is the place where Lord Ganesh ran from King Vibishana, after establishing the Ranganathaswamy deity in Srirangam.
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Information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Fort_Temple
Did the Tamil build the Rock Fort Temple?
Yes the Tamil people completed the Rock Fort Temple although the Pallavas started building it first. Nayaks of Madurai were rulers of Tamil India
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The Madurai Nayaks or Nayak Dynasty of Madurai were rulers, from 1559 until 1736, of a region comprising most of modern-day Tamil Nadu, India, with Madurai as their capital. They were from the Telugu speaking Balija Naidu community 12345. The Nayak reign was an era noted for its achievement in arts, cultural and administrative reforms, revitalization of temples previously ransacked by the Delhi Sultans, and inauguration of a unique architectural style.
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Informatio quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayaks_of_Madurai
This two part temple complex comprise of
1.Shiva temple (Thayumanaswamy)
2.Pillayar (Ganesh) temple
The Shiva temple is the biggest one and is carved in the middle of the rock while the Ganesh temple was carved at the top of the rock.
This temple was used as military fortification by the Vijayanagar emperors and later by the British during the Carnatic wars. This temple is 83m tall which was built by the Pallavas and later finished by the Nayaks of Madurai under the Vijayanagara empire.
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Rockfort or Ucchi Pillayar koil, is a combination of two famous 7th century Hindu temples, one dedicated to Lord Ganesh and the other dedicated to Lord Shiva, located a top of a small rock in Trichy, India. Geologically the 83m high1 rock is said to be one of the oldest in the world, dating over 3 billion years ago, and mythologically this rock is the place where Lord Ganesh ran from King Vibishana, after establishing the Ranganathaswamy deity in Srirangam.
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Information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Fort_Temple
Did the Tamil build the Rock Fort Temple?
Yes the Tamil people completed the Rock Fort Temple although the Pallavas started building it first. Nayaks of Madurai were rulers of Tamil India
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The Madurai Nayaks or Nayak Dynasty of Madurai were rulers, from 1559 until 1736, of a region comprising most of modern-day Tamil Nadu, India, with Madurai as their capital. They were from the Telugu speaking Balija Naidu community 12345. The Nayak reign was an era noted for its achievement in arts, cultural and administrative reforms, revitalization of temples previously ransacked by the Delhi Sultans, and inauguration of a unique architectural style.
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Informatio quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayaks_of_Madurai
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