The latest finding by the authorities of Tiruvannamalai reveal erotic sculptures from the chola age and these erotic sculptures near Tiruvannamalai are said be 1000 years old.It proves that erotic art and paintings were part of the  early culture of Tiruvannamalai.The report is taken from Times of India’s publications on 22nd october 2018.

Some time before sexual articulation was viewed as unthinkable and arousing quality foul, private scenes were carved in sanctuaries the nation over. While some were cut in the middle of scenes from folklore, others were all the more extravagantly shown as found in the Unesco perceived Khajuraho gathering of sanctuaries in Madhya Pradesh or the Konark Sun sanctuary in Odisha. In Tamil Nadu, a four-exceptionally old tank, Chinnayan Kulam, 40km from Tiruvannamalai town, remains as demonstration of the festival of erotica.

In excess of 100 bas-alleviation figures coating the stone parapet dividers around the tank  on the edges of the Chinnayan Pettai town near Tiruvannamalai are overlooked. An impression of the compelling artwork of the Vijayanagar time frame, it has endure the assaults of time. Despite the fact that the tank was proclaimed a secured landmark by the state archaic exploration division in 1988, the administration neglected to keep up it and investigate its travel industry potential, particularly since it has a remarkable story.

As per the data board at the detect, “the sensual scenes engraved on the parapet divider are not found anyplace else in the state.” It was developed between the sixteenth and seventeenth century by Chinnayan Nayakar, chieftain of Chengam,which is near Tiruvannamalai who assembled the tank for his little girl to teach her in the specialty of erotica. “The little girl was accepted to be uninterested in hitched life however subsequent to visiting the tank, basically implied for washing, she is said to have altered her perspective,” said R Segar history educator of Government Muthurangam Arts and Science College, Vellore. He included that recently marries and childless couples used to visit Chinnayan Kulam, however an unthinkable created around sensual figures and the residents started remaining endlessly. Affirming with archeological records, an authority said the tank and the town were named after the chieftain. A comparative tank in Ravanthavadi lies in an incapacitated state.

The old etchings give a point of view on fleshly investigation, said resigned agent executive of Archeological Survey of India K Karuppiah. “Our precursors picked sanctuaries to teach us about lovemaking. We can discover numerous suggestive models in the midst of divine beings and goddess at sanctuaries, especially in Vaishnava sanctuaries in Pudukottai. Models of comparable nature are found in the tank in bounty,” he said.

As per students of history, sexual models are sorted into consecrated (portraying divine beings and goddess in dalliance), custom (faction and tantric) and common (kamasutra). The Chinnayan Kulam  in Tiruvannamali models fall under the last gathering. The parapet dividers containing models of people in private positions, incorporate gathering exercises and brutishness. Despite the fact that the emphasis is on erotica, scenes from legends like Ramayana, Mahabharata, scenes, vignettes of public activity and outlines of warriors in battle or while chasing additionally enhance the divider. “The figures give data about the old development. There was a ‘richness adore’ clique in twelfth century and Lajja Gauri in Dharmavaram is a fine case of the faction,” said paleologist C Santhalingam.

At the point when locales like Khajuraho pull in voyagers from over the world, these tanks in Tiruvannamalai are a case of a squandered chance. “These sort of workmanship ought to be advanced for the travel industry. There is an enormous group of spectators for it,” said antiquarian Chithra Madhavan, who accepts the sensual models are an impression of common life.

On their part, the Tiruvannamalai authorities had fenced the tank and raised an iron door in 1988, yet it was vandalized throughout the years. Authorities said the tank was revamped and rest rooms built at the site at an expense of ’24 lakh four years prior, however the office was harmed once more. “We have sent a proposition to redesign the tank again and mentioned to name a guardian for the tank,” said Prakasam, custodian at the prehistoric studies office in Dharmapuri.

Kandasamy,the district collector of Tiruvannamalai said they have asked the state prehistory division to remodel Amma Kulam at Ravanthavadi and announce it a secured site. Resigned state the travel industry office official N Ravi said data on its chronicled significance ought to be made broadly accessible. “We just discussion about Mamallapuram, Thanjavur or Madurai and overlook that there are a few lesser-known spots that exhibit the assorted variety and extravagance of our way of life.”