"CAP MAN" & "CHINESE MAN" CARVING IN THANJAVUR BIG TEMPLE
Having an interesting news that foreign people carving in the period of 1010 A.D which is very rare to be. let see some detail.
Thanjavur big temple:
This temple is known by all for it's expansive structure and amazing carvings, statues, paintings it's having itself. With addition to that it having some international king's carvings in it's tower which are we missed to notice mostly.
Foreign people's carvings:
There two important carvings that would say as about king Raja raja chola's international contacts.
- French man carving
There is a carving at the thanjavur big temple's tower with wearing a "top hat" and long sleeve shirt, sharp nose, with beards and mustache which is not similar to ancient tamil peoples who would not wear clothes mostly and clean-shaven and ofcourse does not had the habit of wearing top hats in those period 1010 A.D.
This image is seems like France emperor Robert-2 ho lived in the same period when the big temple built.
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Chinese man carving
There is another one carving carved at the big temple tower look alike a chinese man with long beard and mustache and hair dressed like a chinese man and it is said to be that carving was a chinese emperor who ruled China in same period.
On seeing the two carving it is assumed that the King Raja raja chola's relationship with other countries kings and believed that he expressed their relationship through the carving.
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