Site Name: Tiruvakkarai
Date: 1180 CE
Subject: General view
CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
The Candramoulisvara temple at Tiruvakkarai might have been in existence since at least the time of Aditya I (871-907 CE). This stone temple was then known only as that of Karralip-perumal-adigal. The temple consists of two shrines - a ruined Siva shrine called in the inscriptions that of Shivalokamudaiya-Paramasvamin built by Sembiyan Mahadevi and a Vishnu shrine dedicated to Varadaraja Perumal. There is hundred pillared hall (mandapa) in the second enclosure (prakara) of the temple which could be dated to 1180 CE. There is an inscription on the south wall of the mandapa that mentions the feats of Kulottunga III (1178-1218 CE). References: S.R. Balasubrahmanyam, 1979, pp. 300-301.