Century example sentences

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 Brihaddharma Purana, a thirteenth-century Sanskrit text from Bengal, permitted the local Brahmanas to eat certain varieties of fish.The MCC s revision of the laws brought in a series of changes in the game that occurred in the second half of the eighteenth century.Do not forget that in the early nineteenth century railways had not developed and roads were only just beginning to be laid on an extensive scale.There were several such guilds in south India from the eighth century onwards the most famous being the Manigramam and Nanadesi.Many of them were originally from Jammu and came to the UP hills in the nineteenth century in search of good pastures.Till the last part of the nineteenth century, sports and vigorous exercise for girls was not a part of their education.If a person who lived a century ago were to return to India, she would be greatly surprised at the change that has come about in the country.By the late nineteenth century, manufacturers were printing calendars to popularise their products.Interestingly enough, a fourteenth-century text, the Lilatilakam, dealing with grammar and poetics, was composed in Manipravalam – literally, “diamonds and corals” referring to the two languages, Sanskrit and the regional language.In the 11th Century, Bhopal Lake, one of the largest artificial lakes of its time was built.All through the late nineteenth century, India was importing steel that was manufactured in Britain.Through the nineteenth century, as the settlers moved into new habitats and new lands, they modified their implements to meet their requirements.The features of these government buildings were borrowed from different periods of India's imperial history, but the overall look was Classical Greece (fifth century BCE).When Indian businessmen began setting up industries in the late nineteenth century, they avoided competing with Manchester goods in the Indian market.