Parthasarthy Temple in Chennai yields more history

 An inscription of the Chola emperor Rajendra I was recently discovered at the famous Sri Parthasarathy Swamy temple at Triplicane, Tamil Nadu.

• A mural depicting the Kurukshetra war, a row of horse-drawn chariots and fiercely moustachioed charioteers, all battle-ready discovered.

Parthasarathy Swamy temple:

• 8th-century Hindu Vaishnavite temple dedicated to Krishna, in Chennai
• It was originally built by the Pallavas in the 8th century by king Narasimhavarman I.
• The temple has five of the incarnations or avatars of Vishnu: 
• Narasimhar, 
• Ramar, 
• Varadaraja, 
• Ranganathar and 
• Krishna.
• The temple is glorified in the Divya Prabandha, the early medieval Tamil literature canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE
• Classified as among the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu.
• The name ‘Parthasarathy’, in Sanskrit, means the ‘charioteer of Arjuna’, referring to Krishna’s role as a charioteer to Arjuna in the epic Mahabaratha.
• The temple is replete with inscriptions of the Pallavas, the Cholas, the Pandyas and the Vijayanagara kings.

By the way - do you know who is Parthasarthy Shome?