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

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