Tanjore
Britishnoun
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Fine china and traditional Indian art was layered over them: Tanjore paintings of gods encrusted with gold, Ravi Varma prints that their owners had embellished with silks a century earlier.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
In Tanjore, the densely populated, highly irrigated "garden of southern India," they scorched the fertile earth into a desert.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Tanjore in south India came two emissaries of Sri Amblavana Desigar, head of a sannyasi order of Hindu ascetics.
From Time Magazine Archive
He sprinkled Nehru with holy water from Tanjore and drew a streak in sacred ash across Nehru's forehead.
From Time Magazine Archive
This grand pagoda at Tanjore, taken as a whole, was the most remarkable religious monument we saw in India.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
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