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Innambur, Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu · 10.9818°, 79.3390°
A Paadal Petra Sthalam near Kumbakonam whose sanctum carries a rare Gajaprashta (elephant-back) vimana over a self-manifested lingam. The shrine is glorified in the early medieval Tevaram poems.
Shiva, 'the lord who knows writing', is said to have submitted the temple accounts to the king himself to save a devoted accountant from punishment.
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