Here is some info about ennayiram, that is near Villupuram.
1. Inscriptions found in Venkataramanaswami temple, Gingee indicate that Ennayiram was known as Rajaraja chaturvedimangalam alias Brahmakshetram Ennayiram. It was a north-western hamlet of Panaiyur- nadu in Jayangondasola-mandalam.
2. Rajendra has built a shrine for Suriyan. His inscriptions say there was a patasala which taught Rupavatara - a work of grammar - to 40 students.
- ENNAYIRAM was a flourishing educational centre during the Chola period.
also called Raja Raja Chaturvedimangalam it was a "thaniyur" (independent village) directly coming under the control of the king The word Ennairam means 8000 in Tamil, and the place was called so because 8000 Jains are believed to have been executed here.
Ennairam is a pilgrimage centre famous for the Alagiya Narasingaperumal Temple, where a long Tamil inscription, 1000 years old, was found in 2003.
a very long "meikeerthi" (various titles and exploits) of a Chola king was found here
sps was it rajendra??
The inscription actually runs to 80 lines, but lines one to 53 are yet to be located.
talks about exploits in karnataka, defeat of a king as well as destruction of a town. Tamil poet, Kalamegam, famous for his puns, belonged to Ennairam.
i came across a different line of interpretattion for "ennaayiram"..
instead of jains it relates to brahmins.
there is a tamil Brahmin- Iyer community called "ashtasahasram" meaning "eight thousand"....
the line of thought is that these brahmins were a community of 8000 familes and the descendants of this community are called "ashtasahasram" iyers...
they might have been originally in this ennaayiram villages.. or the 8000 jains living there might have got converted into Hindus and being nonvegetarian eaters might have classified themselves as brahmins under the "ennaayiram" / "ashtasahasram" name.