The impalement of the Jains is a South Indian legend, first mentioned in an 11th-century hagiographic Tamil language text of Nambiyandar Nambi. According...
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the Chalukya, Pallava and Pandya dynasties embraced Jainism. The Shaivite legend about the impalement of the Jains in Madurai claims that 8000 Jains were...
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a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the cultural capital of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Madurai District, which...
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Samanatham (category Villages in Madurai district)
Annales du Musee Guimet, in Paris. Impalement of the Jains in Madurai, a Shaivite legend about the killing of around 8000 Jains by the Pandyan king Koon Pandiyan...
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The use of impalement in myth, art, and literature includes mythical representations of it as a method of execution and other uses in paintings, sculptures...
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Koon Pandiyan (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
ordered their killings with the consent of Sambandar. Around 8,000 Jains were said to have been killed by impalement in which the victims were forcefully...
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Jainism is a religion founded in ancient India. Jains trace their history through twenty-four tirthankara and revere Rishabhanatha as the first tirthankara...
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Corporation of Madurai is the civic body which administers the city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India. Madurai is one of the oldest living cities in the world...
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Tevaram (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
defeats the monks in debate, the Pandya king and some Jains convert to Shaivism. Other Jain monks die in Madurai of impalement in the aftermath. Sambandar died...
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Karungalakudi (category Madurai district)
recent development of NH45 B Jains, Taluk (21 October 2016). "Taluk Jains: Jain Caves & Beds, Karungalakudi". Taluk Jains. Retrieved 25 March 2024. "Karungalakudi...
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The Chennai Silks is chain of retail textile shops in South India. Its founder Thiru. A. Kulandaivel Mudaliar, who was living in a village near Avinashi...
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Human sacrifice (redirect from Human sacrifice in the Ancient Near East)
there were reports of possible human sacrifices in the Madurai area to pacify goddess Shakthi for getting power to develop the illegal granite business...
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names among them. When they rebelled, they were impaled by Koon Pandiyan at Samanatham near Madurai. Mahendravarma Pallava under Appar, a reformed Saivite...
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