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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.
Dalavanur Sathrumalleswaram Pallava rockcut temple is situated between Gingee and Mandagapattu in Tamil Nadu. Attributed to the 7th-century Pallava king Mahendravarman I , the temple, cut out of the rock, is thought to have been dedicated to Shiva , and is noted for its unusual inscriptions.
Mandagapattu Tirumurti Temple is a Hindu temple situated in the village of Mandagapattu in the Viluppuram district of Tamil Nadu, India. This is a rock-cut temple of the Pallava ruler Mahendravarman I (600-630 CE) dedicated to Brahma-Shiva-Vishnu. It is the oldest stone shrine discovered and dated in Tamil Nadu. The temple has the earliest ...
English: Mandagapattu is a small agriculture-based village few kilometers east of a modern highway in Tamil Nadu. It preserves an important 7th-century Hindu temple, significant to the history of architecture and writing scripts of South India.
Pallava cave temples, cut from rock, dating to the time of Mahendravarman or Narisimhavarman (580-688 AD), exist in Melacceri as Maddileshvara temple and at Singavaram as Ranganatha temple. As per the Mandagapattu inscription, the Pallava king, Mahendravarman I established the tradition of the Ranganatha temple.
[4] [5] Pallava sculptors later graduated to free-standing structural shrines which inspired Chola dynasty's temples of a later age. Some of the best examples of Pallava art and architecture are the Vaikuntha Perumal Temple at Kanchipuram, the Shore Temple and the Pancha Rathas of Mahabalipuram. Akshara was the greatest sculptor of their time ...
This Murugan temple is a Hindu monument and is on the north face of the rock. It was expanded over the centuries from a very old Siva cave temple into a major complex. On the top of the Skandamalai rock is an Islamic monument – a 17th or 18th-century dargah built by local Muslim community to honor the last Sultan of Madurai Sultanate Sikandar ...
Rock Cut Temple, Masroor. Masroor Rock Cut Temple; Fifteen rock-cut temples in the Indo-Aryan style are richly carved. This is a unique monolithic structure in the sub-Himalayan region. The main shrine contains three stone images of Rama, Lakshmana and Sita. The temple complex is located on a hill and has a large rectangular water pond.