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  2. Bar Kokhba refuge caves - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Tamil inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Tirumalai (Tamil Nadu) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Category:Hindu cave temples in Tamil Nadu - Wikipedia

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    1 language. বাংলা; Edit links ... Pages in category "Hindu cave temples in Tamil Nadu" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This ...

  6. Mangulam - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram - Wikipedia

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    The Mamallapuram cave temples are incomplete, which has made them a significant source of information about how cave monuments were excavated and built in 7th-century India. [64] Segments of the caves indicate that artisans worked with architects to mark off the colonnade , cutting deep grooves into the rock to create rough-hewn protuberances ...

  8. Seeyamangalam - Wikipedia

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    The main deity Shiva, is called here as Thoon Andar in Tamil (Tamil: தூண் ஆண்டார்) and Stambeshwara in Sanskrit. "Thoon" means pillar and "Andar" refers Lord and hence thoon andar means Lord of Pillars. This name is because of the presence of two pillars in front of this cave temple.

  9. Thirupparankundram Rock-cut Cave and Inscription - Wikipedia

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    Thirupparankundram Rock-cut Cave and Inscription, also known as Umai Andar or Umaiyandar temple, [1] is a rock cut cave temple with inscriptions at the foot of the Thirupparankundram rock hill's south face. It is located in the town of Thirupparankundram, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Madurai city, Tamil Nadu, India. [2]