Mandagapattu Tirumurti Temple is a Hindu temple situated in the village of Mandagapattu in the Viluppuram district of Tamil Nadu, India. Hewn from rock by the Pallava ruler Mahendravarman I in honour of the trinity Brahma-Shiva-Vishnu, the rock-cut cave temple is the oldest stone shrine discovered and dated in Tamil Nadu.[1][2] The temple is notable for the earliest known rock-cut Sanskrit inscription written in Grantha script. It is attributed to the Pallava king Mahendravarman I (600–630 CE).[3]
Mandagapattu Tirumurti Temple is a Hindu temple situated in the village of Mandagapattu in the Viluppuram district of Tamil Nadu, India. Hewn from rock...
the prototype of Jain temples of the period. The best examples of Mahendra group of monuments are the cave temples at Mandagapattu, Pallavaram and Mamandur...
The inscription at the rock-cut Mandagapattu Tirumurti Temple hails him as Vichitrachitta and claims that the temple was built without wood, brick, mortar...
includes the Mandagapattu inscription (Laksitayana inscription) of Mahendravarman I. The inscription reads that he "brought into existence a temple without...
Ranganatha temple. As per the Mandagapattu inscription, the Pallava king, Mahendravarman I established the tradition of the Ranganatha temple. Historian...
north, Mitta Mandagapattu village(Tamil Nadu) in the east and Malattar in the south According to inscriptions in the Malligajuneswarar temple here, the village...
bordered by Nettapakkam in the west, Earipakkam in the north, Mitta Mandagapattu village(Tamil Nadu) in the east and Pandasozhanallur in the south Kalmandapam...
Sathrumalleswaram Pallava rockcut temple is situated between Gingee and Mandagapattu in Tamil Nadu. Above the cave temple there are Jain rockbed resembles...
write Sanskrit texts, inscriptions on copper plates and stones of Hindu temples and monasteries. It was also used for classical Manipravalam – a language...
Archived from the original on 15 February 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018. "Ātmaprajñānanda Saraswati: Airävateswara Temple, Däräsuram". 13 October 2012....