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High medieval · Hindu · India
Rajagopala Perumal Temple
Manimangalam, Chengalpattu district, Tamil Nadu · 12.9160°, 80.0370°
Vishnu (Rajagopala Perumal)Medieval Chola—
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
11th c. (Medieval Chola)
Medieval Chola
History & significance
One of three Vishnu temples at Manimangalam near Tambaram, carrying inscriptions from 1056 CE in which Rajendra Chola I names it Kamakoti-Vinnagar and Thiruvaykulam. The settlement itself is recorded far earlier as the site of a battle between the Chalukya ruler Pulakesin II and the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I.