Tag: Sembiyan Mahadevi

Across the Chola centuries, two women shaped faith in profoundly different ways. Sembiyan Mahadevi built stone temples that anchored Shaiva devotion in permanence, while Princess Kundavai sustained religious life through careful administration, plural patronage, and ritual continuity. Read together, their stories reveal how faith survives not only through monuments, but through care, negotiation, and the…