Thirumalai (in Thiruvanamalai District of Tamil Nadu, India) is an ancient Jain heritage site that has cave temples, cave paintings , sculptures and ancient Tamil inscriptions all related to Jainism. Jain monks had inhabited the caves thousands of years ago.
Read a good summary of the history of Thirumalai in tamil.
Here are some pictures of the site, temple, caves, cave paintings and deities:
Thank you for the wonderful pictures of the Thirumalai Jain Muth. These are probably the best pictures one can find of the Muth online. But no matter how hard I try, I just cannot find good pictures of the Mel Sithamur Jain Muth anywhere online. I have been trying for quite sometime now but only found a few basic photos on http://www.jainheritagecentres.com. There were some photos on the Tamil Jains page of geocities.com but that site has now probably been removed. This is one of the grandest Tamil Jain temple of our times and it is a pity that we cannot find any good photos showing the temple’s grandeur online.
If possible, please upload photos of the Mel Sithamur Jain Muth so as to make it more accessible to the Jain community at large and hence an item on their itinerary.
Thank you for your encouraging words. We are working on getting photos of Sithamur.. You will see them in this website in the due course of time..