Worked by Raja Chola I in 1010 AD, Brihadeshwara Temple is an old sanctuary at Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The divinity of the sanctuary is Lord Shiva—in his moving posture—who is known as the Nataraj. The sanctuary is otherwise called Rajeswara Temple, Rajarajeswaram and Periya Kovil. The sanctuary was fabricated, similar to a post on the shores of a waterway, by the lord to effortlessness the Chola Empire. This thousand-year-old sanctuary is presently essential for the UNESCO World Heritage Site adding to its outstanding recorded and social worth.
The sanctuary is a grand compositional develop that will surprise constantly anybody visiting the sanctuary. Fabricated utilizing more than 130,000 tons of rock, this marvelous structure shows the design ability and liking of the South Indian lords.
The significant fascination of the sanctuary is the 216-feet-tall pinnacle that is worked over the Sanctum of the sanctuary. This flashy pinnacle can be seen by anybody entering the city from far off. Another stunning thing that will sure stun the guest is the eminent Nandi sculpture worked at the sanctuary; it is around two meters in stature, six meters long and two-and-half meters in width, and weighs around an astounding 20 tons for a sculpture worked from a solitary stone. Different stances of the celebrated traditional dance, Barathanatyam, are cut cautiously on the outside dividers of the upper story of the sanctuary.
There are a few sanctums added to the sanctuary by the vast majority of the accompanying rulers, for example, the Pandyas, the Vijayanagara rulers and the Marathas, as well. The sanctuary design wonders about lodging a bunch of astonishments for everybody investigating this extraordinary sanctuary. Another significant compositional element of the sanctuary is that the shadow of the sanctuary never falls on the ground around early afternoon. The design of the sanctuary is done astutely to such an extent that the sanctuary projects no shadow on the ground when the sun is at its pinnacle. This is a wonder that pulls in great many sightseers and compositional lovers from over the world to unwind the design secret of the sanctuary.
Brihadeshwara Temple is likewise the main all-rock sanctuary on the planet, and the way that stones are not accessible inside the 100-mile span of the sanctuary just makes it all the all the more amazing. Rock is as weighty a stone to convey all things considered to cut, however none of that appeared to have shied the lord from understanding the sanctuary the manner in which he visualized.
At the point when the sanctuary was implicit AD 1010, it was the tallest sanctuary in India heretofore, and it took just seven years to finish. The highest structure of the sanctuary, called Vimana, weighs around 80 tons, and it is a secret how the manufacturers got it up there. There are a few melodic columns, which make various sounds when taped, at the sanctuary. After visiting, anybody can comprehend that the sanctuary is a splendid tribute of the richness of fantastic South Indian engineering.