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The fragmentary Pallava paintings still traceable in the 'Cave temples' of Tirumayam and Māmạndur, and in the structural temples of Panamalai and Kāñcī and Māmallapuram as also in the rathas of Māmallapuram date from the seventh and eighth centuries, while the outer layer of paintings in Śittannavāśal, often mistaken to be Pallava, and those in the Tirumalaipuram cave temple in the Tinnevelly district are both Pāṇḍya in origin and belong to the ninth century.⁶⁰ Of the Cōḷa paintings, the most important are those in the *pradakṣiṇa* passage round the sanctum of the Tanjore temple, most probably coeval with the temple and belonging to the time of Rājarāja I and Rājēndra I.