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Just admiring the Chola beauty

Tamil Nadu,
India


Every day thousands of people worship at the Cholas' grand Brihadishwara Temple in Thanjavur. Here are the ochre foundation blocks of perhaps the most remarkable civilisation of Dravidian history, one of the few kingdoms to expand Hinduism beyond India. An historical legacy of the great Chola empire during its heyday.