Temples in Tiruchchennampundi (14th year)

This is a village on the south bank of the Kollidam (Coleroon) formerly a suburb of Tiruppernagar alias Koviladi. During the period of the Pallavas, there was in this place a Siva temple built of brick. The deity was called Tiruchchadai-mudi Udaiya Malnadevar in Tiruchchadaimudi, the northern hamlet of Tirupper (nagar) included in Tenkarai Idaiyarru nadu. Nrpatun-ga’s inscriptions are found on pillars in front of the temple.

Parantaka’s inscriptions (14th to 37th years) are found on the walls of the temple. So the Pallava brick temple should have been built of stone in the days of Parantaka I or perhaps even in the days of Aditya I as a stone sculpture of Ardhanarisvara, a devakoshta figure generally associated with temples of Aditya I’s age, was recovered here (E.C.A. I, PI. 2b). It may be assigned to the ninth century a.d. It is now housed in the Madras Government Museum. But this temple has since been converted into a Pidari temple.