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mandapa along with the elephants had been erected out of the stones dismantled from the Visnu temple at Gingee. The pillars bearing Vaiṣṇava symbols, sankha and chakra, and the depiction of Hanuman in the nearby Malainatha Jain temple were also brought from the same Vişņu temple when it got dilapidated and left uncared for.34
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The Kilsattamangalam Jain temple has also sculptural representations of Śiva, Parvati, Narasimha, Hanuman and Linga worshipped by a devotee carved on the square part of the pillars. These pillars were taken from the local defunct Śiva temple and utilised in the erection of the Jain temple in the early part of the present century35.
34 A. Ekambaranathan, History of Chittämur, pp 32-33 35 A. Ekambaranathan, Jaina Temples of Tondainaḍu, p. 110
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