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Rock-cut Temples

A ROCK-CUT CAVE TEMPLE INSIDE A TARN

In the Melaimalai hillock of Narttamalai, a rock-cut cave temple lies inside a tarn. Narttamalai is a small hamlet on the northern part of Pudukkottai district of Tamil Nadu and about 19 kms from the district headquarters Pudukkottai. The village is nestled between nine rocky hillocks and one among the hillock is Melaimalai lying west […]

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Structural Temples

ALLŪR NAKKARKŌIL

Allur, a hamlet on the southern banks of the river Cauvery is twelve kilometers from the city Thiruchirappalli, lying en-route of Thiruchirappalli-Karur highways. The village is credited with two Chola temples named Pasupathiswara and Panchanadeswara, the former inside the village and the latter at the entry point of the village adjacent to the NH 81. […]