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Denkanikottai, Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu · 12.5161°, 77.7986°
A Vishnu temple at Denkanikottai in the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border country, built in the Hoysala idiom with a five-tiered rajagopuram; the Wodeyars of Mysore endowed its major shrines and pillared halls in the 16th century.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
The Skanda Purana account here has Venkateswara appearing to the sage Kanva to save him from the yaksha Devandagadagan, taking the form of a hunter and killing the yaksha with a mace called Denkani, from which the town takes its name.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Mysore Wodeyar
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