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Pāṇḍya
Jaina Inscriptions in Tamilnadu
Maganjaḍaiyan (Varaguņa I)
26th regnal year (794 A.D.)
Tamil, Vatteluttu
Built in at the right end. Records gift of 100 sheep for a lamp by Sattan Guṇattan, a native of Kuņņūr in Nilakkuḍināḍu, for supplying ghee to a deity in the temple, Tirukkaṭṭampalli, at Kugandi in Venbunāḍu.
ARE, 430/1914, SII, Vol. XIV, No. 32.
Kurandi Tirukkaṭṭampalli in Venbunāḍu (Aruppukkottai area) was a huge monastic establishment of the Jains between the 8th and 10th centuries A.D. The exact location of the Jaina palli is not known to us since no vestiges are found in and around Pallimadam. The inscriptions referring to the palli are found on some stones built into the Siva temple. Obviously, these stones were taken from a Jaina temple and later used for the construction of the Siva temple.
R. Champakalakshmi, "Kugaṇḍi - Tirukkäṭṭampalli - An ancient Jaina monastery of Tamilnadu", Studies in Indian Epigraphy, Vol. II, 1975, p. 84 ff.
