A Jain temple situated about 12 kms from Uthukuli, is believed to be centuries old. Though so ancient, few people seem to know of its existence. Only a handful of Jain families and some others ...

“This is a pattern in many Jain sites across Tamil Nadu,” said Ajithadoss. “We are too few in number and we cannot protect our sites, and temples of local deities have cropped up in many of ...

Treasures excavated from these caves include stone beds, inscriptions, paintings, cave temples ... elaborated on Jain inscriptions, sculptures and paintings found across Tamil Nadu, which are ...

Jainism reached Tamil Nadu in around 300 BC and flourished here ... In comparison, Chennai has only 18 Tamil Jain temples catering to roughly 1,500 Tamil families. Temples matter.

Six panchaloha idols have been stolen from the centuries old Bhagawan Sri 1008 Mallinadhar Jinalaya temple at Gingee in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu. Two idols of the main deity Mallinadhar ...

I have been studying Jain legacy in Tamil Nadu for quite some years ... which have many surviving Jain temples even today. Also, this book covers all important epigraphical evidence to ...

In his other book, From the House to the City in Tamil Nadu or the Forbidden Diagonal — translated from a French book penned by Jacques Gaucher — Suresh describes “all the major temple towns ...

The matter reported from a temple in Tamil Nadu is rather weird as one devotee dropped his iPhone into the temple's hundial (hundi) and as he demanded it back, the temple authorities refused by ...

Renowned music composer Ilaiyaraaja recently visited the Srivilliputhur Andal Temple in Tamil Nadu. However, it was said that the musician was denied permission to go near the sanctum. The videos ...

I’m not on pilgrimage.” Little do I then suspect that Destiny will deviate me on a near-obsessive decade-long pilgrimage to the temples of Tamil Nadu. The Brihadisvara Temple in ...