COLAVANDIPURAM
History- Colavandipuram is a another tenth
century Jain center where the interior of a cave shelter accommodates beautiful
sculptures of Gommatesvara, Parsvanatha, and Ambika. The cave shelter
was modelled in the form of a shrine by a Ganga chieftain. It was to this shrine
that Siddhavadavan, the Malayaman vassal of Gandaraditya, granted the village
Panaippadi in 952 A.D. The grant was to be used for the conduct of worship
to the images.