we forced ourselves to go and see the inscriptions mentioned in the article at the tiger cave ( just b4 you enter mahabs - most people skip this).....
the first cave was an excellant one, but due rains water had collected in the basin - but could not force us out, we shed our shoes and waded through and grooped our way to get some really great pictures of the caves. the second one was more easily approachable.....it has inscriptions carved on both sides ......sadly the innner scultures of somaskandar were only barely visbile...but still shone in their classic shapes...we had goose pimples when i read out the lines from the translations of sri nagaswamy's article...
"The king Atyantakama, who was conquered all his foes and also known as Ranajaya, has caused this temple to be made."
ATYANTAKAMA, a king of unlimited fancies
as long as the sun and moon exist, this temple exists and as long as that exists people shall read his name....we were doing exactly that reading it 1300 years after he had it inscribed.