Twelfth example sentences

Between the tenth and twelfth centuries the Chola and Pandya kings built elaborate temples around many of the shrines visited by the saint-poets, strengthening the links between the bhakti tradition and temple worship.Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, the celebrated Sufi saint (see also Chapter 8) who settled there in the twelfth century, attracted devotees from all creeds.This movement began in Karnataka in the mid-twelfth century.Among the Kshatriyas, new Rajput clans became powerful by the eleventh and twelfth centuries.In many areas of present-day Bihar and Jharkhand, Chero chiefdoms had emerged by the twelfth century.Ajmer (Rajasthan) was the capital of the Chauhan kings in the twelfth century and later became the suba headquarters under the Mughals.A twelfth-century inscription from Uyyakondan Udaiyar, in Tiruchirapalli taluka (in present-day Tamil Nadu), describes the deliberations in a sabha (Chapter 2) of Brahmanas.In the twelfth century, one of the most important rulers of the Ganga dynasty, Anantavarman, decided to erect a temple for Purushottama Jagannatha at Puri.The first literary works in Malayalam, dated to about the twelfth century, are directly indebted to Sanskrit.Of these, the most important are the capital cities built between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries.