Like the temple of Tiruppurambiyam, this is an earlier temple probably from Parantaka I's time (907 - 954 CE) but a large number of sculptures than the usual original five have been crudely inserted into newly improvised niches made by cuttings into the old outer inscribed walls of the sanctum sanctorum (garbagriha) and the half hall (ardhmandapa) causing damage even to the inscriptions. This is likely to have taken place in the period of Uttama Chola (971 - 988 CE) when additional divinity niche divinity niches (devakoshtas) sculptures became fashionable of the temples of Sembiyan style. Reference: S.R. Balasubrahmanyam, 1971, pp. 183-185.