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DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS ON 



It is nearly buried in the sand, and consists of a verandah or 

 porch of three bays open to the east, and a shrine cell in the 

 centre of the back wall, containing a handsome polished 16-sided 

 lingam and the Siva tableau so often mentioned. 



Two other lingams, with the same Siva tableau again, occupy 

 the two side bays of the verandah. Over the entrance to this 

 shrine the name or title " Atirana Cauda Pallava " is cut in two 

 characters, and the north and south end walls of the verandah 

 are inscribed with a transcript in two ancient characters of the 

 inscription in Kamaraja's temple (No. 24), differing only as to 

 the name of the founder, and in the character being rather 

 more modern, perhaps of the eighth to tenth centuries A.D. 



The stout square piers with octagon centres affiliate this to 

 the style of Dharmaraja's Mandapa (No. 44, and to No. 50). 



Close to this mandapa is a shed containing six or eight figures 

 of village goddesses carved in stone, somewhat like No. 5. 



59 and 60. To the north-west and north of the Atirana Cand- 

 esvara shrine there are two inscribed rocks about 100 yards 

 distant, one mentioning a grant of land, the other having a deed 

 of sale engraved in old Tamil, like that of the inscription on the 

 rock at the Yarahasvami temple, No. 35. 



61. From internal evidence these old Tamil inscriptions are 

 believed to belong to the year 1115 A.D., and there is another 

 in the neighbourhood at Pavalakkarar Cavadi of the same 

 character, dated in the year corresponding to 1235 A.D. 



