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JAINA ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF TAMILNADU
Tirumalai and Karantai and a mango tree behind the sculptures of Ambika as at Valliamalai, Cholapandipuram and Sempattur is also due to such an extraneous impact. Kannada epigraphical records found in Dharmapuri, Valliamalai, Tirumalai, Pechchipallam etc., bear testimony to the successive Jaina contacts between Tamilnadu and Karnataka during medieval and late medieval times. 32 REFERNCES: 1. A. Ekambaranathan, Jaina Iconography in Tamilnadu,
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