The Subramanya Temple at Saluvankuppam, TN, is a shrine dedicated to deity Murugan. The shrine unearthed in 2005, consists of two layers: a brick temple constructed during the Sangam period (3rd century BCE) and a granite Pallava temple dating..
from the 8th century AD and constructed on top of the brick shrine. It has been estimated that the age of the brick shrine range from 1700 to 2200 years.
After the 2004 tsunami had subsided, archaeologists discovered rock inscriptions which had been exposed by the tsunami waves
close to the hamlet of Saluvankuppam, The inscriptions by the Rashtrakutaking Krishna III and the Chola kings Parantaka I and Kulothunga Chola I spoke of a Subramanya Temple at Thiruvizhchil (the present day Saluvankuppam).
Then the ASI team identified a nearby mound as the site of the temple. In 2005, archaeologists unearthed the temple.
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Fa-hien, a Chinese traveller who visited India during the times of Chandragupta, provides us details about the charitable dispensaries in Pataliputra.
According to Fa-hien the nobles & householders of this country founded hospitals within the city to which the destitute of all
countries, the poor, the crippled and the diseased may come. Here, these people were treated freely and provided with every kind of help. After inspecting their diseases the physicians treated them with all their efforts.
Epigraphical records of the Chola period tell us about
6.1: श्रीभगवान् ने कहा -- जो पुरुष कर्मफल पर आश्रित न होकर कर्तव्य कर्म करता है, वह संन्यासी और योगी है, न कि वह जिसने केवल अग्नि का और क्रियायों का त्याग किया है।
5.24: जो पुरुष अन्तरात्मा में ही सुख वाला, आत्मा में ही आराम वाला तथा आत्मा में ही ज्ञान वाला है, वह योगी ब्रह्मरूप बनकर ब्रह्मनिर्वाण अर्थात् परम मोक्ष को प्राप्त होता है।