Ramayanam before Kamban -47, thiruvaleeswaram, ambasamudram
  • There is one more Thiruvaleeswaram near Ambasamudram. It is 5 kms away and on the fringes of Brahmadesam.(Rajaraja-chaturvedimarigalam,

    a brahmadeya in Mulli-nadu,)

    This temple is under ASI and well maintained. Temple is full of inscriptions on the entire goshtam and outer walls too.

    Except dakshinamoorthy and chandeeswarar no goshta deavata. The lord radiates a divinity. The temple has vast lands but nobody pays any money. Govt pays Rs 300 on one kala pooja and pooja happens once a day. No visitors either.

    The temple has many scluptures on the tower. The Kannapar, Chandesa anugraha moorthy, nataraja ,... captured all.

    A big ganesa and Muruga in the outer prahara look later additions.

    A pillar before bali peedam, ( image included) mentions about RRC keeping a batalion based at that place. ( see ASI board)

    The temple has inscriptions from RRC onwards till Nayaks. Searched for Vj's friend Pulithoppai but not found.

    Vadakku vasal selvi, Jwaradevar , sastha, saptamatrika ( the two images sitting on both the ends unknown)

    Tiruvalisvaram.



    This place was in Mullinadu, in Rajarajavalanadu.



    130. 115 of 1905. (Tamil.) On the north wall of the central

    shrine in the Vallsvara temple. An incomplete record in the

    thirteenth year of the Chola-Pandya king Jatavarman alias Sundara

    ChOla-Pandyadeva. Records gift of lamps. The temple here

    called Tiruvallchcharamudaiyarwas in Rajaraja-chaturvedimariga-

    lam, a brahmadeya in Mulli-nadu. [The king referred to was

    evidently the contemporary and feudatory of RajendrachOla I

    (101143).]



    131. Il6 0/1905. (Vatteluttu.) On the same wall. A record

    in the eleventh year of the ChOla king Rajarajakesarivarman (I,

    9851013). Records gift of land.



    132. 1170/1905. (Vatteluttu.) On the north and west walls

    of the same shrine. Records in the eighteenth year an agreement

    among the villages of Rajaraja-chaturvedimarigalam.



    133. 118 of 1 905. ( Vatteluttu.) On the same walls. Records

    in the eighteenth year gift of land.



    134. 119 of 1905. (Vatteluttu.) On the south wall of the same

    shrine. A record in the eleventh year of the ChOla king Rajaraja-

    kesarivarman (I, 985 1013), " who destroyed the ships at Kandalur-

    Salai." Records gift of land. The village is called Rajaraja-

    chaturvedimarigalam, a brahmadeya in Mulli-nadu, a subdivision

    of Rajaraja-Valanadu.



    135. 120 of 1905. (Tamil.) On a pillar set up near the

    balipitha of the same temple. Registers the various victories gained

    by the ChOla army called Munrukai-Mahdsenai and records that the

    temple at Tiruvalisvaram, its treasury and the temple servants

    were placed under the protection of this army.


    There is a mention in varalaaru.com by Dr Kalaikkovan sir having visited and studies the temple

    Images are sent separately to the group.

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