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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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Thirupparankundram Rock-cut Cave and Inscription is located in Thiruparankundram in its landmark hill that towers to a height of 1,048 feet (319 m) and has a circumference of over 2 miles (3.2 km). This hill contains some of the earliest cave temples of Shaivism tradition in the Madurai region, of which this temple is one. The hill is sacred to ...
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]
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.
Arachalur Rock-cut Cave Musical Inscription, also known as Arachalur Isai Kalvettu is a rock cut historical site of musical inscriptions at the south of Nagamalai hill in Arachalur Reserve Forest near Erode in Tamil Nadu, India.