High Middle Ages · South Asia · Culture
1026
Rajendra Chola builds Gangaikonda Cholapuram
1026
To commemorate his northern expedition to the Ganges, the Tamil emperor founded a new capital and built a great sandstone temple to Shiva. The temple would stand for a thousand years as a monument to one of medieval South Asia's greatest imperial ventures, its sculpted walls still vivid today. Rajendra's military campaigns had carried Chola banners from Sri Lanka to the banks of the Ganges itself.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.