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Woothampatti Punnaivana Ayya Soundarapandian [1] (15 September 1893 – 22 February 1953) was a leading figure in Nadar Mahajana Sangam who became the first Nadar member of the Madras Legislative Council upon a recommendation by P. T. Rajan in 1920. Nadar's family had previously supported and worked for the electoral victory of P. T. Rajan. [2]
Historian K. V. Soundara Rajan attributes the construction of the five Siva shrines at Chebrolu, Samalkot, Draksharamam, Amaravathi, and Palakollu to Chalukya Bhima I (888–918 CE), the Eastern Chalukyan king during his reign. However, there is no concrete evidence supporting the idea that all five temples were built by Bhima I.
K.V. Soundararajan has read the inscription as Utpatipidugu and interprets it as a pilgrim label. [4] Deepak Kannal and Jayaram Poduval [5] have worked on a special volume titled 'Sri Utpattipidugu', Nirukta, 2005. Deepak Kannal believes that Utpatti pidugu could be the name of a religious leader who created a new movement and was able to gain ...
He was known for his pioneering work in excavating Stone Age and megalithic sites of South India along with Mortimer Wheeler and V. D. Krishnaswami in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Some of the sites excavated by Soundararajan include Sanur (near Chengalpattu ) (1950), Kundrathur (1955–56), Perur (1970–71), Malayamputtu (1970–71) and ...
K. V. Soundara Rajan assigned the first half of the 7th century. [7] [8] The most probable date considered now is the last quarter of 6th century (Maitraka period) to the first half of the 7th century. [9] The temple is a protected monument by Archeological Survey of India and is designated as a Monument of National Importance (N-GJ-133).
The Soundararajaperumal Temple is a temple dedicated to the Hindu god, Vishnu.It is located in Nagapattinam, a town in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.Constructed in Dravidian style of architecture, the temple is glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE.
According to historian K.V. Soundararajan, the Rangantha temples in South India built during the 9th and 10th centuries have a systematic arrangement of subsidiary deities as seen in this temple along with the Appakkudathaan Perumal Temple at Koviladi, Veeraraghava Perumal temple at Thiruvallur, Rajagopalaswamy temple at Mannargudi and ...
According to the historian Soundara Rajan, the institutionalization of the temple trees, temple history, and the festival calendar in South Indian temples was ...