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Early medieval · Hindu · India
Sikharagiriswara Temple, Kudumiyamalai
Kudumiyanmalai, Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu · 10.4165°, 78.6596°
Shiva (Sikharagiriswara)Pallava—
Sacred since
600 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
7th c. Pallava inscriptions
Pallava
History & significance
A rock temple at Kudumiyanmalai near Pudukkottai carrying inscriptions of the Pallava king Mahendravarman, among them a celebrated treatise on music. Its later complex includes a thousand-pillared hall and mandapas carved as chariots drawn by elephants and horses.