Kunnakudi Cave, Pasu Muthuramalingam

(Karaikkudi - IN)
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A rock-cut temple with inscription at the foot of the hill in a complex (SI no. 188) which includes a boulder stone bed and Brahmi inscriptions on the Hill (note 1) and possibly had been excavated from granite or laterite (note 2). SITUATION: At a certain locality Kunnakudi or, perhaps, at Kundrakudi (note 3) in Sivagangai district (Sivaganga), renamed Pasu Muthuramalingam (India Road Atlas, Eicher Goodearth 2006: 119).A rock-cut temple with inscription at the foot of the hill in a complex (SI no. 188) which includes a boulder stone bed and Brahmi inscriptions on the Hill (note 1) and possibly had been excavated from granite or laterite (note 2). SITUATION: At a certain locality Kunnakudi or, perhaps, at Kundrakudi (note 3) in Sivagangai district (Sivaganga), renamed Pasu Muthuramalingam (India Road Atlas, Eicher Goodearth 2006: 119).

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