Ancient Chola Temples

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The Ancient Chola Temples Collection has thorough architectural and historical information
on about 50 Hindu temples that were built in South India between the 9th and 13th centuries CE
during the rule of the Chola kingdom (Vijayan, 2023). This large collection goes into great depth
about the unique Dravidian style of Hindu temple building that grew during the Chola Empire. It
includes structure details, decoration, space arrangements, specialized language, and how the
style changed over the 300-year rule of the dynasty.
The featured temples show the unique features of Chola temple architecture during this time.
These include tall vimanas (towers above the inner sanctum) shaped like long pyramids or
curved hips, lots of sculptures of gods, dancers, musicians, and scenes from mythology; and
huge, ornately decorated gateway towers (gopurams) that were added to many temples (Style,
11). The collection has pictures, 3D models, floor plans, and written analyses of important
architectural features found at these temple sites, such as pillared halls, secondary shrines,
entrance towers, drainage systems, paintings, and bronze figures.
The collection is important because it shows how Chola shrine design can be different in
different parts of the country. For example, there are differences between holy sites in Tamil
Nadu like Thanjavur and Gangaikondacholapuram and those in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and
Kerala (Agoramoorthy & Ravichandran, 2023). You can also see how the form of Chola
buildings changed over time, as they got bigger and more complicated.
Part 2:
The Ancient Chola Temples Collection is mostly used by students, teachers, and scholars
who are interested in Dravidian and South Asian studies, Hindu temple building, Indian history,
South Indian traditional arts, archaeology, and the history of art and architecture. This group of
academic users includes college students and teachers, with most of them having completed a
master's degree in a related field at a top Indian or international school. They are graduate
students, university teachers, private scholars, builders, and historians who work in related fields,
such as the history of the Chola era or the building of medieval Indian temples.
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The users' level of schooling and job directly affects the necessary information, such as the
detailed language, extra visual data, and the level of relevant description given. For graduate
students who already know a lot about South Indian temple design, basic explanations of
building parts like gopurams and mandapas are enough. But more explanations are needed for art
history students who don't know much about the symbolic meanings and practical places of
Dravidian Hindu buildings. Photographic records help with visual analysis, and 3D models help
builders look at the features of a building.
What digitization efforts help Indian users the most versus foreign users the most depends on
their age and financial position. Online access makes it easier for younger students around the
world to use, but Indian teachers like paper books that they can make notes on. People from the
middle class to the upper middle class like strong choices, like digital collections with high-
resolution images and university library goods.
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References
Agoramoorthy, A., & Ravichandran, T. (2023). A Symbol of Early Chola Excellence the
Sayavaneswarar Temple. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior, 14(2), 1123-1127.
STYLE, I. P. 11. The Pallava, Chola and Hoyasala Sculptural Styles of South India.
Vijayan, S. (2023, August). Significance of Symbolism in Envisioning Architectural Scale

Through the Comparison Between Two Living Chola Temples and Their Relationship
Between Cultural Psychology and Architectural Sublime. In EAEA16: Envisioning
Architectural Scales in the Analogue and Virtual Representation of Architecture (pp. 199-
211). Royal Danish Academy-Architecture, Design, Conservation.

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