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Arangulanathar Temple, Thiruvarangulam

Shiva temple at Thiruvarangulam in Pudukkottai district with a hundred-pillared hall, recalled in a Sambandar hymn

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01 — The story

The story

Arangulanathar Temple, also known as the Haratheerthiswarar temple, is a Shiva temple in Thiruvarangulam in Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu. Shiva is worshipped here as Arangulanathar and the goddess as Brahadhambal, or Periyanayaki. It counts as a Tevaram Vaippu Sthalam, a shrine referred to in one of the hymns of the saint Sambandar.

The temple has a mandapa of 100 pillars. Among its many subsidiary images are Vishnu, Saraswati, Nataraja, a Dakshinamurti playing the veena, Porpanai Ganesha and Shanmuganathar with Valli and Devasena, along with the poet-saints Appar, Sambandar, Sundarar and Manikkavacakar and the 63 Nayanars.

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02 — About

About Arangulanathar Temple, Thiruvarangulam

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Where it is

Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu

10.36° N 78.87° E