Chithanavasal Cave or Arivar Koil is a 2nd-century Tamil complex of caves in Chithanavasal village in Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu, India.Its name is a distorted form of Sit-tan-na-va-yil, a Tamil word which means "the abode of great saints"
The monument is a rock-cut monastery or temple. It is called the Arivar Koil, and is a rock cut cave temple of the Arihants. It contains remnants of notable frescoes from the 7th century. The murals have been painted with vegetable and mineral dyes in black, green, yellow, orange, blue, and white. Paintings have been created by applying colours over a thin wet surface of lime plaster.
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