Vizhinjam Cave Temple, Kerala
Vizhinjam Cave Temple is a Hindu Temple dedicated to Lord Shiva located in Vizhinjam Village in Neyyattinkara Taluk in Thiruvananthapuram District in Kerala, India. This cave temple is considered as one of the earliest rock-cut cave temples in Kerala and smallest rock cut cave temples in Southern India. This temple is protected as monuments of national importance by the central Archaeological Survey of India.
History
The cave temple is believed to have been excavated in 8th century CE. The site is a centrally protected monument under the control of Archaeological Survey of India since 1965. Vizhinjam was the administrative capital of Ay kingdom, which is believed to have ruled over parts of the southern India between the 8th and 10th centuries A.D. The region had witnessed several battles in which the Chola and Pandya dynasties attempted to gain control of the port town. Vizhinjam gradually lost prominence after the 10th century CE after coming under constant attack of the other kingdoms.
The Cave Temple
The cave is excavated on a small boulder measuring about 3 metres in height and 3.5 metres in width. The cave is carved on the eastern face of the boulder and is facing towards east. The cave consists of sanctum only. It measures about 1 metre in length, 0.7 metres in width and 1.5 metres in height. The sanctum enshrines an image of Vinadhara Dakshinamurthy. There are two rock cut niches housing bas relief images on either side of the entrance of the sanctum.
The right side niche has bas relief image of Tripurantaka. He is accompanied by two dwarf images on either side. He is four armed. His lower left hand holds the bow & upper left hand holds the axe and his lower right hand holds arrow & the upper right hand shows ardhapathaka mudra. He is depicted standing on his right foot the floor and the folded left foot on the head of the Muyalagan. A carving of Bhooda gana can be seen on the left side of Muyalagan.
It is interesting to note that different forms of Tripurantaka had developed at such an early date. The left side niche has two bas relief images of Nataraja and Parvati. The Nataraja image is depicted in dancing posture. His left leg is depicted in parsvatha posture and his right leg held in swastika posture. The face is tilted towards his right side. The image to the left of the Nataraja is Parvati. She is shown resting her left hand on her hip and the right hand rests on her chin.
Connectivity
The temple is located at about 250 metres from Vizhinjam
Bus Stand, 2.5 Kms from Kovalam, 9 Kms from Balaramapuram Railway Station, 14
Kms from Poovar, 14 Kms from Neyyattinkara, 15 Kms from Thiruvananthapuram
Central Bus Stand, 15 Kms from Thiruvananthapuram Central Railway Station, 16
Kms from Thiruvananthapuram Airport and 21 Kms from Thiruvananthapuram. The
temple is situated on Kovalam to Poovar route.
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Vietnam Boat Tragedy: 15 Indians Dead, Kerala Govt Rushes To Repatriate Mortal Remains |Vietnam News
Mortal remains of the 15 Indian tourists who were killed after a speedboat they were travelling in capsized off Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island on Saturday will reach the Ho Chi Minh City by today evening, the Indian Emabssy in Vietnam said on Sunday.
The Embassy said it is closely coordinating with the Vietnamese authorities who have assured all assistance for earliest transportation of the mortal remains to India. There were 36 people – 32 Indian tourists and four local crew members – on board. Of them, 21 were rescued.
Hon May Rut Ngoai off Phu Quoc Island on Saturday.
According to the list, the deceased from Tamil Nadu were identified as Senthil Kumar Jayavel, Muruga Prabhu Arumugam, Sridhar Sundararajan, Shaik Abdullah Abdul Majeed, Balaji Natesan, Vinaya Kumar Chithirapuram Bhaskara, Ravisankar Sugumaran, Santosh Kumar Shantilaljain, Babu Kuppuswamy and Alagurajan Sivasamy.
The deceased from Andhra Pradesh were identified as Nallapeta Adiseshaiah Raviteja, Sreedhar Mudiam and Jaya Lakshmi Gelli, while those from Kerala were identified as Avicot Cheriyan Thomas and Loveni Thomas
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