friends, recently i was browsing through the south east asian temples. one such temple seen in a place called dhammayangi in burma has close resemblance to GKC temple in TN. incidentally when the king who was building the temple he was killed by either indian mercenaries( tamils-cholans?) or the king was killed by sinhalese at the time of the construction. (something is ringing in the year!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammayangyi_Temple