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Late medieval · Jain · India
Jainimedu Jain Temple
Jainimedu, Palakkad, Kerala · 10.7857°, 76.6426°
ChandraprabhaUndetermined—
Sacred since
1400 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
15th c.; renovated 2013
Undetermined
History & significance
One of the few surviving Jain temples in Kerala, raised in the 15th century by a family of diamond merchants from Karnataka and renovated in 2013; the Malayalam poet Kumaran Asan wrote Veenapoovu at a Jain house beside it.