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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.
Varaha cave temple entrance. The Varaha cave was excavated from a vertical wall on the west face of the main Mamallapuram hill. [65] Its architecture is simple; a Vaishnavism-related cave temple, it is known for its four sculptures depicting Hindu legends: the Vamana-Trivikrama legend, the Varaha legend, the Durga legend and the Gajalakshmi legend.
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.
It preserves an important 7th-century Hindu temple, significant to the history of architecture and writing scripts of South India. Dedicated to Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, it includes a Sanskrit inscription in Grantha script which states that it is first rock cut cave temple made without "wood, brick, metal or mortar".
Only Chaitya hall of Ellora (Cave 10) with portico, balcony and horseshoe-shaped window. Buddhist cave temples represent an underground variant of the Buddhist monastery and temple complex, which dates back to the dwelling of the ascetic Ĺramana Movement since the epoch of the Upanishads (8th to 7th century BC) as well as to urbuddhist meditation sites.
The custodians of an ancient Hindu religious site in Malaysia are planning to install an escalator as an alternative for those visitors either unable or unwilling to climb the 272 steps leading to ...
The best examples of Mahendra group of monuments are the cave temples at Mandagapattu, Pallavaram and Mamandur. The second group of rock cut monuments belongs to the Mamalla group from 630 to 668 AD. During this period free-standing monolithic shrines called ratha s (chariots) were constructed alongside pillared halls.
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.