A group of 275 shrines dedicated to the Hindu deity Shiva and concentrated in southern India. They are mentioned in the works of devotional poetry composed by the Shaivite Nayanar saints of medieval southern India.
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Geographical region encompassing parts of southern Nepal and northeastern India. The language spoken here is Maithili. Also historically known as…
An archaeological site in present-day Afghanistan that was excavated between 1952 and 1965. The excavations uncovered an architectural complex, including…
A cave temple in Ellora dating to the eighth century CE and discovered in 1876. Marked as Cave 11, it…
A town in Karnataka, India, it is an archaeological site of rock-cut inscriptions from the third century BCE, which have…
A city in present-day Tamil Nadu, it was formerly known as Tanjore and was the capital of the Chola Dynasty.…
Historic region of southern India spanning present-day northern Tamil Nadu and southern Andhra Pradesh, bounded by the Arni and Kotallaiyar…
Historic region of southern India comprising the fertile deltas of the Krishna and Godavari rivers, in present-day Andhra Pradesh, sometimes…
Bijapure (now Vijayapura) is a city in present-day Karnataka which was founded c. tenth century CE by the Western Chalukyas…