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Chidambaram (Cidambaram) is an important Chola temple site in Tamil Nadu, southern India. Most of the temples at Chidambaram were built in the 12th and 13th centuries CE. The site is dominated by the huge gateway tower of the Nataraja temple...

The Kedarnath temple in the Himalayas of India dates back to the 8th century CE. A famous myth associated with the site involves the Mahabharata war which occurred between the Kauravs and Pandavas. The Pandavas, feeling guilty for killing...

Ancient India in the Vedic Period (c. 1500-1000 BCE) did not have social stratification based on socio-economic indicators; rather, citizens were classified according to their Varna or castes. 'Varna' defines the hereditary roots of a newborn...

Hanuman is one of several zoomorphic characters in Indian mythology, but is the only wholly animal figure who is revered as a god today. The mythic texts speak of him as a monkey child of the Wind God, as possessing enormous strength, keen...

Emperor Harshavardhana, better known as Harsha, lived from 590 to 647 CE and was the last ruler of the Vardhana Empire, the last great empire in ancient India before the Islamic Invasion. He ruled from 606 CE to 647 CE. After Harshavardhana's...

Arjuna wins the hand of Draupadi after defeating his other Pandavas brothers in a competition set up by her father, the king of Drupada. Arjuna won by hitting the eye of the rotating fish in the sky. (c. 1885 CE watercolour, Victoria & Albert...

A watercolur painting on cloth depicting Karna, leader of the Kauravas during the Kurukshetra war as recounted in the epic Mahabharata.

Kunti leads the blindfolded Gandhari and a blind Dhritarashtra, parents of the 100 Kauravas, into exile in a scene from the Mahabharata. 16th century CE print by Dhanu.

Four Armed Vishnu statue, 8-9th Century

A statue of Vishnu riding Garuda. Cham culture, Vietnam, 8-9th century CE. (Musée Guimet, Paris)