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.

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