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800-year-old Shiva temple
June 12 , 2025
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- An 800-year-old Shiva temple of the later Pandya period has been unearthed at Udampatti, a village in Melur taluk.
- The two Tamil inscriptions found on the stone base, says they can be dated to 1217-1218 CE, during the reign of Maravarman Sundara Pandya.
- As per the inscriptions, the name of the village was Attur and the temple was called Thennavanisvaram.
- The inscriptions are a sale deed of a waterbody by one Alagaperumal, chieftain of Kalavalinadu, to one Nambi Perambala Kuthan alias Kangeyan.
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