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Caves were used for refuge throughout history in the region. Up the southern slope of the Masada cliff, the almost inaccessible Yoram Cave, whose only opening is located some 4 metres (13 ft) above an exposed access path and 100 metres (330 ft) below the plateau, has been found to contain 6,000-year-old barley seeds.
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This list of deepest caves includes the deepest known natural caves according to maximum surveyed depth as of 2024. The depth value is measured from the highest to the lowest accessible cave point. The depth value is measured from the highest to the lowest accessible cave point.
Tamil inscriptions in caves, Mangulam, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, 3rd century BCE. [13] [14] [15] There are five caves in the hill of which six inscriptions are found in four caves. [16] The inscriptions mentions that workers of Nedunchezhiyan I, a Pandyan king of Sangam period, (c. 270 BCE) made stone beds for Jain monks. It further details ...
Yoram (יֹרָם or יורם ? ) is a given name derived from Jehoram ( יְהוֹרָם ), meaning " Jehovah is exalted" in Biblical Hebrew , which was the name of several individuals in the Tanakh ; the female version of this name is Athaliah .
Mangulam inscriptions were discovered by Robert Sewell in the caves of the hill in 1882. [6] This was the earliest finding of such kind of inscriptions. In 1906, Indian epigraphist V. Venkayya tried to read the inscriptions and found that it similar to the Brahmi script in Ashokan edicts, he thought that the inscriptions were in Pali language.
The foundation inscription details in Pallava Grantha Script, a Tamil Language -"Splitting the rock, Gunabhara casyed to be made on (the tank) the Mahendra Tataka(Tank) in the great (City of) Mahendrapura this Solid, Spacious temple of Murari, Named Mahendra Vishnu Graha, which is highly praised by good people,(and which is) an abode of beauty ...
Tirumalai (lit. "the holy mountain"; also later Arhasugiri, lit. "the excellent mountain of the Arha[t]"; Tamil Engunavirai-Tirumalai, lit. "the holy mountain of the Arhar" is a Jain temple and cave complex dating from at least the 9th century CE that is located northwest of Polur in Tamil Nadu, southeast India. [1]