1) MUNNUR  SRI ADAVALEESWAR TEMPLE IS AN VERY ANCIENT TEMPLE EXISTING FROM VEDHIC PERIOD. IT WAS ALSO CALLED AS ” THARUGAVANAM ” AND ” KAILASH ON EARTH ” BY THE MAHARISHIS. THE TEMPLE STRUCTURE WAS 2700 YEARS OLD. THERE ARE 52 STONE INSCRIPTIONS IN THIS TEMPLE ABOUT THE DONATIONS MADE BY THE CHOLA AND PALLAVA KINGS TO MAINTAIN THE TEMPLE. THE SANCTUM SANCTORUM OF THE SHIVA IS SITUATED IN A STRUCTURE LIKE “NEERAZHI MANDAPAM” WHICH WAS BUILT BY THE GODDESS PARVATHI HERSELF TO MADE POOJA FOR SHIVA. THE STHALA VIRUKSHAM OF THIS TEMPLE IS VANNI TREE AND THE THEERTHAM IS CALLED “BRAMHA THEERTHAM”. IT IS A VERY RARE SOUTH FACING GURU PARIKARA SHIVA TEMPLE SITUATED IN TAMILNADU NEAR  TINDIVANAM.

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Pallva�Inscriptions

Nos.176 to 200

No. 176.

(A. R. No.�80�of�1919).

Munnur, Tindivanam Taluk, South Arcot District.

On the south wall of the west prakara (inside) in the Adavallesvara temple.

This inscription of the 12^th year registers the gift of a lamp-stand of five tiers for burning 10 lamps in the temple of Udaiyar Adavalla-Nayanar at Munnur aliasRajanarayana-chaturvedimangalam, by Ambarudaiyan Madevan Kulottungasola-Muvendavelan of Ambar in Ambar-nadu, a subdivision of Uyyakkondar-valanadu in Sola-mandalam. The donor also purchased 750 kuli of land and gave it astiruvilakkuppatti to the Sivabrahmanas of the temple who agreed to maintain the ten lamps from evening till midnight in the temple.

Before the time of Rajaraja III, the god at Munnur was known as Mulasthanamudaiya-Mahadeva (Nos. 65 and 67 of 1919). The village Ambar may be identified with Ambal in the Nannilam taluk, Tanjore district.

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