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Periyar District
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No. 377
Village
Vijayamangalam
Talak
Erode
District
Periyar
Findspot
On a stone built into the floor of the Vadyamandapa in the Jaina temple.
Dynasty
King
Date
Language
and Script
Sanskrit, Dāvanā gari
Contents
A single lined inscription. States that this (mandapa or temple) stands glorified by the Brihatkatha
Reference
S, Shanmugam, "Vijayamangalam", Mukkudai, February, 1975, p. 7.
Remarks
The tradition centering around the temple is that the Sanskrit work Brihatkatha was rendered into Tamil (Perunkathai) by the poet Konguyēl at Vijayamangalam, and the present epigraph seems to confirm it.
