Tiruparuttikunram Jain Temples

Jain Temples at Tiruparuttikunram

In the village of Tiruparuttikunram on the outskirts of Kānchīpuram is an enclosure containing two Jaina temples. The smaller of them is in late Pallava style, the larger early Chola with a mandapa in Vijayanagara style. They thus supply an epitome of the main features of the chronological development of Dravidian temple architecture which so far as is known is found nowhere else in so concise and well-balanced a form.

• The two temples at Tiruparuttikunram are among the oldest temples of the district.
• A regular colony of Jainas seems to have been settled in Kānchīpuram from ancient times and the locality where they lived was styled " Jina-Kānchī " or that part of Kānchī occupied by the Jainas.

Location:	Tiruparuttikunram
Name:	Vardhamāna Temple
Dedicated to:	Vardhamāna
Date of Construction:	Chola era
Location:	Tiruparuttikunram
Name:	Chandraprabha Temple
Dedicated to:	Chandraprabha
Date of Construction:	Pallava era

Jain Temples, Tiruparuttikunram (Tamil Nadu), India