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High medieval · Hindu · India
Arangulanathar Temple
Thiruvarangulam, Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu · 10.3562°, 78.8736°
Shiva as Arangulanathar (Haratheerthiswarar), with Brahadambal (Periyanayaki)UndeterminedDravidian
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Shiva temple at Thiruvarangulam in Pudukkottai district with a hundred-pillared mandapa and shrines for the three principal Nayanars and all sixty-three; it is one of the Tevaram Vaippu Sthalams named in a hymn of Sambandar.