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COMBACONUM

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 750 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COMBACONUM , or KL'MBAKONAM, a city of British India, in the Tanjore
district
  of
Madras
 , in the delta of the
Cauvery
 , on the
South
  Indian railway, 194 M. from
Madras
 . Pop. (1901) 59,623, showing an increase of to % in the decade. It is a large town with wide and airy streets, and is adorned with pagodas, gateways and other buildings of considerable pretension. The
great
  gopuram, or gate-pyramid, is one of the most imposing buildings of the kind, rising in twelve stories to a height of upwards of too ft., and ornamented with a profusion of figures of men and animals formed in stucco. One of the water-tanks inthetown is popularly reputed to be filled with water admitted from the Ganges every twelve years by a subterranean passage 1200 M. long; and it consequently forms a centre of attraction for large numbers of devotees. The city is historically interesting as the
capital
  of the Chola race, one of the oldest Hindu dynasties of which any traces remain, and from which the whole
coast
  of Coromandel, or more properly Cholamandal, derives its name. It contains a government college. Brass and other metal wares, silk and
cotton
  cloth and sugar are among the manufactures.


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