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 364 DRAVIDIAN STYLE. BOOK III. 2Qth years of his reign ; and these gifts were presented to " the stone temple of Rajaraje-rvara " which, we are told, he " caused to be built at Tanjor." 1 Now Rajarajadeva Chola, the son of 213. View of the Great Temple at Tanjor. (From a Photograph by Middleton Rayne, Esq., C.E.) Parantaka II., became king in A.D. 985, and must have completed the temple some time before 1012 ; as it would take some years to build, we may safely assume that it was begun about the end of the loth century, and completed about ioi2. 2 1 Hultzsch's ' South Indian Inscrip- tions,' vol. ii. pp. 8 and 68. Conf. 'Archaeology in India,' p. 25. 2 It is only within the last few years that we have been able to obtain any- thing like a correct list of the Chola