Mythbusters, records,
and answers to what people actually search.
Six articles answering the long-tail questions that bring most visitors here — the records, the myths, the dating, the why, and the how.
Facts & FAQs — overview
A small number of factual questions about Brihadeeswara — does the shadow not fall on the ground, is the kalasam really eighty tonnes, was it really built in seven years — arrive at the site so often, and in so many languages, that they essentially constitute their own small genre of search. This pillar is the editorial response.
The shadow page is the most-read on the site, by a clear margin. The world records page is the most-contested — there are several claims floating in the popular press that are not, on inspection, actually correct. The how-it-was-built page collects the engineering account in one place. Every entry here is cross-linked to the relevant architecture or history article for the long form.