The ____ temple at Thanjavur had the tallest shikhara amongst temples of its time.

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The Rajarajeshvara temple at Thanjavur had the tallest shikhara amongst temples of its time.
At Thanjavur, the Rajarajeshvara temple had the tallest shikhara amongst temples of its time. It was not easy to construct because there were no cranes in those days and the 90-tonne stone for the top of the shikhara was too heavy to lift manually.The boulder was placed on rollers and rolled to the top of the temple by the architects using an inclined slope that they had made. The slope began from more than 4 km away, so it would not be too steep. After the construction, Charupallama, the ‘Village of the Incline’, became the name of a village near the temple.

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