Daily Current Affairs – 22-05-2025

Tamil Nadu

Discovery of Chola-era Tamil work ‘Thiruvadukoorpuranam’ deciphered

from temple inscriptions

® Historians led by Sarasvati Mahal Library Tamil scholar Mani Maran decoded the name of the Chola-period Tamil text ‘Thiruvadukoorpuranam’ from stone inscriptions at Thirukandeeswaramudaiyar temple, Cuddalore. ® The inscriptions revealed that ‘Vanathiban’ authored the ‘Vadukoorpuranam’, the temple’s sthalapuranam referenced in Saivite Thevaram hymns by Thirugnanasambandar. ® No palm manuscripts or copper plates of the ‘Vadukoorpuranam’ have survived till now.