Vettuvan Kovil | Ellora of South India | கழுகுமலை வெட்டுவான் கோயில் | Kalugumalai Part 1
Vettuvan Kovil has a small Artha mandapam and garbhagriha, which now holds Lord Ganapathy inside. Amazingly carved figures of Uma Maheshwara , Dhakshina Murthy, Vishnu, Bramha. Also in the west side you can see Narasimha, Brahma , South side Dhakshina Murthy. And at the four corners you can see seated Nandi's, now badly damaged. Believed to have been excavated some 40 yrs before the excavation of Kailasa temple of Ellora.
The Vettuvan Koil is in Kalugumalai village, about 60 km from Tirunelveli and 20 kilometers from Kovilpatti. It is located in Thoothukudi district in southern Tamil Nadu. Temple sits on the top of small stone hillock on the eastern side. The temple was built in the 8th century along with the Kalugumalai Jain Beds under the early Pandyan era
As per local legend, there was a rivalry between a father and son. The son started to work on lower rock for the Murugan temple, while father started working uphill. The son claimed that the father would never finish the shrine, which infuriated the father to kill the son.
It is believed that the son was able to finish the Murugan temple at the foothills, but the father's work on this temple was incomplete.
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