Mystery in Nagercoil

on 9 Feb 2006 since it's a holiday we decided to climb up the chunkankadai hill (ayyapa college hill)....
and we climb in the morning at about 7 am.
chunkankadai is place on the NationalHighway47 near Nagercoil
I would like to share some interesting things that cached our curiosity....
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look at this...they are Porcupine's Quills

we found it from top of the chunkankada mountain...for details on Porcupine please refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine
they are called mullanpanni in malayalam.
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we found this on top.......a rock with a huge tick mark......but what does it stands for any clue!!!
here is an another snap

ok....so u can now imagin how huge it is.....a single piece carved in rock!!!!
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this is an almost abandon mandapam.....we fond it at the foot of the mountain...
we know there are so many abandoned mandapams in kanyakumari dist....
but it have some interesting rock cuts most of its pillars are carved in single stone....
what made us curious is why they are abandoned...
they do not have any Hindu temple architecture style of today's...

one of the many rock carvings we found on that mandapam
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The entire series of photos we took on that day can be viewed at... http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/attingal_thalolam/album?.dir=d0a8&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/attingal_thalolam/my_photos
on my yahoo photo page http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/attingal_thalolam/my_photos

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