Kalugumalai

Kalugumalai is a town in Kovilpatti Taluk of Thoothukudi locale in the Indian territory of Tamil Nadu. Kalugumalai is 21 km and 22 km from Kovilpatti and Sankarankovil individually. The place houses the rockcut Kalugasalamoorthy Temple, solid Vettuvan Koil and Kalugumalai Jain Beds. It has a normal rise of 105 meters 344 feet. It is deliberately situated in the middle of Kovilpatti 20 km from kalugumalai and Sankarankoil 19 km from kalugumalai and filled in as antiquated exchange course from Kovilpatti to courtallam and sengottai. The town has two sections Kazhugumalai and South Kazhugumalai or kottai kalugumalai. The area is known for the Jain buckle sanctuary and engineering.

There are ious Jain pictures with marks in vattezhuthu content. The epigraphs says the name of the donors, of the figures, of the arrangements made for the contributions, and so on. The primary god of the slope was called Araimalai Alwar. Alternate figures were caused to be made by the supporters of Jain confidence from ious towns close-by. The figures were caused to be made in memory of the left spirits. There are roughly one hundred and fifty alleviation models. Among the benefactors were the craftsmen, potters, smiths, cultivators and different specialists. Various others were high positioning people bearing the titles of Enadi, Etti and Kavidi. Arrangements are additionally recorded for explaining Jain siddhanta a Gunasagara bhattara an incredible Jain austere lived here.