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Excavation in Kodumbalur
January 6 , 2025
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- The Tiruchi Circle ASI has taken up an excavation at the habitation mounds at Kodumbalur in Viralimalai taluk of Pudukkottai district.
- Kodumbalur, about 40 km from Tiruchi, has several ASI-maintained monuments.
- It is including the Moovar temple, built by Bhuti Vikramakesari, the Irukkavel chieftain who was believed to have been a political ally of Parantaka II, also known as Sundara Chola (CE 956-973).
- Kodumbalur finds mention in the Sangam literature Silappadikaram.
- It is one of the 32 sites we had identified for taking up excavations in the Tiruchi Circle under the ASI’s Looking Beyond - Vision Statement for Excavations by 2035.
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