Advent of Kulakoddan (436 A.C) Chola Kankan, a Prince, arrived here on pilgrimage, in keeping with a parental vow and found the temple all broken down. He immediately took steps to rebuild the temple in magnificent Pallava architecture. He founded the Papa Nasa Theertham and also built a large irrigation tank at Kantalai. He invited forty Vanniya family clans from India, to cultivate the lands under the tank and sustain the maintenance of the temple complex he had erected. Posterity has crowned him with the epithet name of "Kulakkoddan" (Builder of Tank and Temple). Lt. Col. C.P. Thomas, R.A. a modern administrator-author writes, "A Prince came along, and hearing that the Rock of Trincomalee was a fragment of The Golden Mountain of Meru hurled there during the conflict of the Gods, erected on it a Temple for Shiva". Truly Kulakoddan was an "Emissary" of the Lord and his advent was by Divine Grace. ### The Pancha (Five) Ishwarams of Eelam Courtesy: Shruthi Laya Shangam, London and Shri S. Arumugam, from the presentation of the Kalakshetra dance drama "Pancha Ishwaram of Lanka" at the University of London on 16 October 1999
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