TIRUVANNAMALAI

HISTORICITY

Though the shrine claims of Pouranic glory, dating back to the Krita yuga and enshrines certain vestiges of that dim past, its historic past begins only in the eight century. The mighty rulers in their passion for religion and love of arts made endowments to the temple in several ways, besides erecting tall gopurams and huge mandapams. Inscriptional evidence preserved by the Department of Epigraphy provides the historian adequate data starting only from eighth century onwards. 

The donors and patrons preferred inscribing their contributions in the languages they held dear, and so scholars find several vernaculars - Tamil, Sanskrit, Kannada etc. and what is more they are both in prose and verse. 

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