Mangulam
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Mangulam or Mankulam is a village in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located 25 kilometres from Madurai. The inscriptions discovered in the region are the earliest Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions
Mangulam Jain inscriptions (model)
The longest inscription at the site, and the earliest known Tamil-Brāhmī inscription. It records the gift by the Pandya king Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ of a monastery to the senior Jain monk Nanta-siri Kuvaṉ.
Information board by Department of Archaeology, on the left is description about the Mangulam Tamil Brahmi inscriptions and actual translation is on the right.
Mangulam inscriptions explained.
Netunceliyan I
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Netunceliyan, was an early Pandya king. Netunceliyan was known by the title Āriyappaṭai-kaṭanta Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ. He is a character in Ilango Adigal's Cilappatikaram, one of the Five Great Epics in Tamil
Mangulam
…period. The inscriptions are among the protected monuments in Tamil Nadu by the Archaeological Survey of India. The inscriptions mentions that workers of Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ I, a Pandyan king of Sangam period, (c. 270 BCE) made stone beds for Jain monks. It further details the name of worker for whom he made stone bed. For…
Kannagi asking for justice in the court of Netunceliyan, a scene from the Cilappatikaram
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