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Some remains of Ca temples have been discovered
outside Polonnaruva, too. At Norago1a, near Padaviya, were
unearthed the remains of three temples Tamil inscriptions,
some dating to the time of Rjarja I, have been found in these
ruins. The occurrence of nandi, lii!iga and yoni figures shows
that these structures belonged to aivism The names of these
temples are not known, but one of them appears to have been
named after Rjarja Besides these Structures, three other
aiva temples of the C3,a period are known from contemporary
inscriptions, but their remains have not been unearthed so far.
These are the Tirn-irnff gvaram and Rjarja-ivaram temples of
Mahtittha and the Uttama-ca-varam of Xtkaa Among the
ruins at Nahtittha (!ntai), remains of some buildings of the
eleventh century as weLLas a nandi, a lifga and a Gaa image
were found Some of these may be the ruins of C1a temples.
Saiva temples of the Polonnaruva period have also been discovered
1. A.S.C.A.R. for 1891, p. 10; A.S.C.A.R. for 1961/62, p. 67.
2. Ibid,
3. See supra, p. oc
k. See supra, 1'
5. A.S.C.A.R. for 1908, pp. 28, 30; K.Vaithianathan, Thirpketheesvaran
Papepe, p. 13.