[1] The cave is in the protected monument by the Archaeological Survey of India[2] and it is a Tamil Nadu tourist attraction.

[4] These paintings were made by the Jain monks who stayed in the cave during the period when their religion was flourishing in the ancient Tamil country.

Previous research at the site by Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil, who died in 1945, had found antiquities of Pallava dynasty, who ruled at that time.

Jouveau-Dubreuil claimed to have discovered this cave from information he had found on the Udayendiram copper plates which had referred to a village given away by the Pallava ruler Nandivarman II that sounded like Kumaramangalam.

[8] The paintings explain the native stories of Jainism and also had images of Astathik Palakas,[1] also called as protectors of eight corners and they are Agni, Vayu, Kubera, Eesanya, Indra, Yama, Niruthi and Varuna.