Suchindram Thanumalayan Temple

Secondary literature reports early inscriptions at Suchindram, including Venad-period records. No estampage or transcript is stored here, so inscriptional claims are not treated as read.

The standard monograph is identified and reserved. No chapter has been extracted, so no claim in this PoC is footnoted to a page of the book.

Earliest photograph in this corpus that can be republished. It shows the eastern gopuram from the street and a tall wooden temple car. It does not show the tank or the interior.

Close view of the white sculpted tower, its finials, and the figures along the sides.

Public-domain view of the sculpted eastern tower, one palm, and entrance buildings in the foreground. It does not show the tank or the interior.

The tank and the mandapa standing in the water. The main gopuram is outside this frame.

The paper describes an east-facing temple, a seven-storey gopuram, musical pillar groups (its count of the smaller pillars differs from other guides), and a Hanuman figure it describes as over 16 feet. It is used as a conflicting description of the same features, not as a survey.

Wide view across the tank. The gopuram and the mandapa in the water are both visible.

Simplified elevation. The tower follows the photographs. The tank is visible in the 2008 and 2021 frames. Hall positions are still not taken from a survey.

Top-down reading of published relationships. It is not a floor plan from a survey.

Block model of the same features as the elevation and site diagram. Heights and depths are arrangements. The tower steps are not a storey count and are not a measured height.

The article describes an east-facing complex, an eastern tower it counts as eleven storeys and about 44 metres, musical pillars in the Alankara Mandapa, a large Hanuman, and later Nayaka and Travancore work. It also gives more than one account of who administers the temple. Those statements are stored as secondary claims.

One secondary account describes seven storeys. Another describes eleven storeys and a height of about 44 metres. The 2007 photograph shows the tower without settling the count. No single figure is published here as the measurement.

Wikipedia attributes the present masonry to the Chola period in the 9th century, with later Nayaka and Travancore expansions. Other guides speak of the standing fabric as later. The claim is stored, not confirmed.

Wikipedia describes a 16th-century Navaratri mandapa with Kerala-style timber construction. No drawing of it is stored.

Secondary retellings say the image was buried around 1740 and uncovered in 1930. Primary Devaswom records are not ingested, so this remains a published story with a low confidence.

Secondary historical summaries associate major tower work with the reigns of Vishakam Tirunal and Sree Moolam Tirunal. The primary Travancore records are not in this corpus.

The photograph shows a gateway and lower structures in front of the tower. When they were built is not known. They are not labelled as twentieth-century additions.

Barriers, lighting, and concrete tank edges are often mentioned by visitors. This corpus has no work order and no older photograph to date them, so they are not given a decade.