How did a temple communicate the importance of a king?
Temples were build to demonstrate the power, wealth and devotion of the king.
- Often the names of king and the man deity were identical to each other. For example, rajarajeshvara temple built by king rajarajadeva. For the worship of his god namely, rajarageshvaram.
- The other subordinate deities in a temple represented the original subordinates of a king.
- The temple was a small scaled model of the world ruled by the king and his allies.
- As they worshipped their deities together in the royal temples which seemed as if they brought the just rule of the gods on earth.
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