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The festival marks the adoption of presiding deity, Andal, by Periyalvar after he found her near a tulasi plant in the garden of Vatapatrasayi Temple at Srivilliputhur on the eighth day of the Tamil month of Adi. [19] [20] The temple car [21] was originally very heavy (40 m tall and 650 tonnes) and it took days to take it back to the original ...
Srivilliputhur Andal Temple: 193.5 [13] 10th–16th centuries AD Srivilliputhur Andal Temple's gopuram measures eleven storeys high and 59m tall, making it the tallest of its era. During the Madurai Nayak dynasty, lesser figures sponsored religious projects, including the large scale campus. [14] The temple is the emblem of the Government of ...
Srivilliputhur Andal temple: Motto: Vāymaiyē vellum ... Behind the capital, is the image of a Gopuram or Hindu temple tower based on the Srivilliputhur Andal temple.
Srivilliputhur Divya Desam temple. Srivilliputhur Andal Temple is a popular landmark of Srivilliputhur. It is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu and one of the 108 Divya Desams, temples that are revered in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the 8th-10th century Vaishnava canonical literature.
Behind the capital, is the image of a Gopuram or Hindu temple tower based on the Srivalliputhur Temple.
Sarangapani temple, Kumbakonam. The Sanctum sanctorum is designed like Chariot, Chola architecture These are the two surviving Hindu temples of the pre-Pallava period namely, Veetrirundha Perumal Temple and Murugan temple at Saluvankuppam. These temples are one of the oldest ones in Tamil Nadu. Part of a series on Tamils History History of Tamil Nadu History of Sri Lanka Sources of ancient ...
The temple complex has been nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is in UNESCO's tentative list. [8] Other temples like Madurai Kallalagar temple which has high ‘Gopuram’ towers ornamented with colourful figures, and the Meenakshi Temple with high colourful towers and great long
A gopuram or gopura (Tamil: கோபுரம், Telugu: గోపురం, Kannada: ಗೋಪುರ, Malayalam: ഗോപുരം) is a monumental entrance tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a Hindu temple, in the South Indian architecture of the southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, and Telangana, [1] and Sri Lanka.