Varaha Cave
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Emmanuel Francis
Creators: Emmanuel Francis
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 19, 2025 01:49 PM
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The modern name of a seventh-century Pallava cave temple in Mahābalipuram.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/965370150
12.6180857, 80.1922234
- Representative Locations:
- Representative point derived from an OpenStreetMap node (AD 600 - AD 699) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Varaha Cave (English, AD 1800 - AD 1899)
- Varaha Cave located at Mahabalipuram (unspecified date range)
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shrine, cave, temple
Pleiades
Emmanuel Francis, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Varaha Cave: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/965370150> [accessed: 16 January 2026]
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