Mamandur

Mamandur rock cut caves

Mamandur is a village in Tiruvanamalai district of Tamil Nadu, India. It is located on the Kanchipuram - Vandavasi road, near Dusi. It is known for the 7th-century rock-cut cave temple, which is one of the monuments of national importance as declared by the Archaeological Survey of India.[1]

Inscriptions in the rock-cut temples, attribute the temples to 7th-century CE Pallava king, Mahendravarman I.[2] Narsimha is the principal deity of Cave I,[3] while the Cave II, in the complex, is known from later inscriptions as the Saiva Rudravalisvaram Cave.[4]

The caves are situated on the banks of Palar river. A tank named Chitramegha tataka,[5] also known as Dusi-Mamandur tank is located behind the caves, which believed to be built Mahendravarman I.[6] The cave contain Tamil Brahmi inscriptions and cave paintings.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Alphabetical List of Monuments - Tamil Nadu". Archaeological Survey of India. Retrieved 9 March 2014. S. No. 200 — Rock Cut Caves, Sculptures And Inscriptions, Mamandur
  2. ↑ Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil (1917). The Pallavas. Asian Educational Services. pp. 39–. ISBN 978-81-206-0574-9.
  3. ↑ N. S. Ramaswami (1989). 2000 Years of Mamallapuram: Text. Navrang. p. 201.
  4. ↑ K. R. Srinivasan (1964). Cave-temples of the Pallavas. Archaeological Survey of India. p. 37.
  5. ↑ Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya; Pradip Kumar Sengupta (1 January 1991). Foundations of Indian Musicology: Perspectives in the Philosophy of Art and Culture. Abhinav Publications. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-81-7017-273-4.
  6. ↑ "Back to its grandeur". The Hindu. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  7. ↑ "The impact of paintings on dance". Sunday Observer. 11 August 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2014.

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Coordinates: 12°44′N 79°40′E / 12.74°N 79.66°E / 12.74; 79.66


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