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    They are Ganesa, the Saptamatrika and Jyeshtha.

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    Ganesa's Theory of Truth.

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    Among the others are Ganesa, Kartikeya, Durga and Mahishamardini.

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    The Ganesalena at Ellora depicts also the Shanmata or six- fold cult of Surya, Vishnu, Siva, Kartikeya, Ganesa and Durga.

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    The two- storeyed Ganesa ratha is nirandhara, single- walled, and with a narrow mukha- ma' uapa in front and of the same length as the aditala.

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    The Ganesa and the Saptamatrika cults would thus appear to have come into the far south from the Chalukyan area through the Ganga region, before they penetrated the Tondaimandalam of the Pallavas.

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    Another well- preserved temple of this type is to be found in Bandi Tandrapadu nearby with a nirandhara body, having carvings of Ganesa, Durga and Kartikeya on the relieved bhadra niches on its sides.

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    In the far South, Ganesa is to be found in the cave- temples at Pillaiyarpatti, Kudumiyamalai, Malai- yakkovil( southern cave- temple), Tirugokarnam, Kunnandarkovil, Tiruvellarai( Siva cave- temple), Devarmalai, Tirukkalakkudi, Tiruchirapalli( lower cave- temple), Tikimalapuram, Kunnakkudi, Muvaraivenran, Tirup- parankunram( larger cave- temple), Sevilippatti, Kunnattur( Nilakanthesvara), Virasikhamani and Arittapatti.

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    In the lower rock- cut cave- temple at Tiruchirapalli( Paindya), while the two lateral shrine- cells are dedicated to Siva and Vishnu, the rear wall of the mandapa has five niches enclosed by pilasters, the central one with Brahma and the others with Ganesa, Subrahmanya, Surya and Durga.

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    These mixed characters and other features, as also the presence of relief sculptures of Brahma and Vishnu in the mandapa, provision for a linga in the shrine, and the presence of other sculptures like Chandesa and Ganesa, and the rock- cut Nandi, would indicate their non- Paliava origin and their date as being the middle of the eighth century.

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    The larger cave- temple at Tirup- parankunram takes in five out of the six deities, excluding Surya, for the two principal lateral shrines are dedicated to Siva and Vishnu, while a third, for Durga, has been cut out of the rear wall at its centre with the two recesses on either side having sculptures of Ganesa and Subrahmanya.

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    It contains some good bas- reliefs in its wall niches which exemplify the definite polarisation of the deities in the vimana and ardha- mandapa devakoshthas, namely, Ganesa and Durga respectively, in the southern and northern outer wall niches of the ardha- mandapa and Dakshinamurti, Vishnu and Brahma respectively, in the south, west and north outer wall niches of the aditala wall.

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    The fifth group would be that where the sandhara pattern with circumambulation develops a sarvatobhadra sanctum cell, with door- openings on all the four sides, fronted by a series of two or three mandapas, and, in the most advanced type, having an additional agra- mandapa that contains sculpture panels of Ganesa, Durga and other forms on one side and the Saptamatrikas on the other side of the agm- mandapa.

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    Of the other four rathas, the Ganesa ratha has been cut out of a boulder amidst the main hill in Mahabalipuram, and the two Pidari rathas( northern and southern, so called because they are near the modern temple of the village goddess Pidari) and the Valaiyankuttai ratha( standing in front of the Valaiyankuttai pond) are shaped out of free- standing boulders at a distance on the western side of the main hill.

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