Please' ve a look at today's supplementary of The Hindu , friday review .
Its about the inscriptions in Anoor {13 kms from chengalpet}. The inscriptions include the reign of Rajaraja I .The inscriptions mentions the appointement of a scholar to teach vedas,Mimamsa,Vritthi,Alankara,Vyakharana ,Adhyaayi.Every sale,agreement or donation by anyone had to be preceded by a referance to a king to be a legally binding. The earliest inscription in the siva temple of Anoor is the time of kampavarma pallava,the son of Nandivarma III.The defeat of Kampavarman's son Aparajitavarman,by Aditya chola I,towards the end of the 9th century,marked the end of pallava dominace..
The temple is very old and the repair works are to be done.The contributors and contact Devarajan at 93825 55553.
Subsequent to REACH FOUNDATION Dr.T.Satyamurthy, Epigrapher S.Ramachandran, members Natarajan and Chandra's visit to the village,on seeing the Times of India article which came earlier to this, our member teacher Epigrapher S.Ramachandran again had visited the village to decipher all the available inscriptions to the villagers, which has now again got a good coverage in FridayReview of THE HINDU NEWSPAPER dated 17th July 2009, under the title 'CULTURE'. But the author had misquoted that Siva temple is under renovation, which is not so. Both the Siva and Vishnu temple need renovation, which REACH is planning to under take asap. The article in THE HINDU is found here.