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High medieval · Hindu · India
Choleesvarar Temple, Mulanur
Mulanur, Tiruppur district, Tamil Nadu · 10.7966°, 77.7105°
Shiva as Choleesvarar, with SoundaranayakiUndetermined—
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Shiva temple at Mulanur counted among the Vaippu Sthalams named in the hymns of the Nayanar Sundarar, with subsidiary shrines to Vinayaka, Subramanya with Valli and Deivanai, Surya, Bhairava and Nataraja.