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- The Tamilnadu State government identified three ecologically fragile areas.
- They are:
- Arittapatty in Madurai,
- Vagaikulam in Tirunelveli and
- Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) in Coimbatore.
- It will be shortly issued as Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHS).
About Arittapatti
- Tamil Brahmi stone inscriptions, dating back to the second century BCE (Before Common Era), are found in Kalinjamalai located at Arittapatti.
- An inscription found at Arittapatti indicated that earlier the village was called ‘Paathirikudi’.
- The inscriptions indicate that two persons - Nelvazhi Sizhivan and Ilanji Imayavan - had given shelter to the Jain monks at this cave
- During the Pandya reign, the Arittapatti village was part of ‘thenparappu nadu’.
- Near the cave, a sculpture of an ancient Jain Thirthankara is found.
- A 10th century CE vattezhuthu inscription found under the sculpture says that Kalinjamalai was earlier called as 'Thiruppinaiyanmalai'.
- The other important heritage spot in the village is the 8th century rock-cut temple of Lord Shiva with a rare sculpture of Lakulisa.
- An inscription belonging to Sadayavarman Vikaramapandiyan period is found at another structural Shiva temple.
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