Kunnakudi Cave, Pasu Muthuramalingam

(Karaikkudi - IN)
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Grottocenter / carte

Location

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). BTH - 12/02/2025

Description

General 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).

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018

History

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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