The grand anicut KALLANNAI
Introduction
The river kaveri which has it origin in
coorg
District of karnataka is reserved and
used for cultivation in kallannai which is commonly known as grand anicut
The grand anicut kallannai is reffered
to the oldest dam that has been built during the period of chola king kari
kallan over first century.it still stands for centuries safe guarding the
people of region from floods
Need of kallannai
The flash floods which occurred in
district of tanjore, capital of chola is root cause for the structure. During the
period of chola king kavErAn they use rocks to reserve water from which the
plan of building kallannai framed.
They used rock knowm as "kal" in tamil
language to construct a dam known as "anai" in tamil language, so the dam gets
a name kallannai
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