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CHIDAMBARAM, or CHEDUMBRUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 132 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHIDAMBARAM, or CHEDUMBRUM , a. See also:town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:South See also:Arcot See also:district of See also:Madras, 7 M. from the See also:coast and 151 m. S. of Madras by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) 19,909. The pagodas at Chidambaram are the See also:oldest in the south of India, and portions of them are gems of See also:art. Here is supposed to have been the See also:northern frontier of the See also:ancient Chola See also:kingdom, the successive capitals of which were Uriyur on the See also:Cauvery, See also:Combaconum and See also:Tanjore. The See also:principal See also:temple is sacred to See also:Siva, and is said to have been rebuilt or enlarged by a leper See also:emperor, who came south on a See also:pilgrimage and was cured by bathing in the temple tank; upwards of 6o,000 pilgrims visit the temple every See also:December. It contains a " See also:hall of a thousand pillars," one of numerous such halls in India, the exact number of pillars in this See also:case being 984; each is a See also:block of solid See also:granite, and the roof of the principal temple is of See also:copper-gilt. Three See also:hundred of the highest-See also:caste Brahmins live with their families within the temple enclosure.

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