At 05:30 AM 1/29/99 PST, you wrote:
>
>Dear Dr. Jayabarathi,
>
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>Where is this Tiruvisaluur Rajaraja image published?
>I want to see it. Which book? I only know
>KaNDarAdhittar (Thitu Nallam).
It is found in "Early Chola Temples"
S.R.Balasubramanyan-Orient Longmans Publication
Vol.2
Plate No.186.
Its also found in "Chola Mandalaththu VaralARRu nAyagargaLin
siRpanggaLum OviyanggaLum" by KudavAyil BalasubramaNiyan-
Thamilzh Palkalaik Kalzhagam Publications.
Regards
Jayabarathi
>
>More later,
>n. ganesan
>
>
>Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 06:50:09 +0800
>Reply-To: Indology <INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK>
>From: jayabarathi <jaybee at TM.NET.MY>
>Subject: Re: [q] Seeking information on "hiraNyagarbha" ceremony
>To: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
>
>At 07:58 PM 1/28/99 +0100, you wrote:
>
> Found it. During the Imperial Chola times, it was performed by
>no-less
>person than the chief queen of the Great Raja Raja Chola himself.
> The event took place in ThiruVisaluur temple in Tanjavur
>district.
>It was in his twenty-ninth regnal year, ie., 1014 A.D. He performed the
>Thulabara
>Dana ceremony and donated his own weight in gold to the temple. His
>chief
>queen, Danti Sakti Vitanki alias Loka Maha Devi perfomed the
>Hiranyagarbha
>Dana. Some of the left-over gold was fashioned into golden
>flowers(Suvarna
>Pushpa)
>and dedicated to Kshetrapala in the shrine that she built in Thru
>Valanjulzhi.
> The inscription recording the event is inscribed in the temple
>of
>ThiruVisaluur, below a sculpture of Raja Raja and his queen performing
>Siva
>worship.
>One of the rare representations of RajaRaja that have come across the
>ages
>to us.
>
>Regards
>
>Jayabarathi
>
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