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High medieval · Hindu · India
Iluppaipattu Neelakandeswarar Temple
Iluppaipattu (Mayiladuthurai district), Tamil Nadu · 11.2056°, 79.5931°
Shiva as Thiruneelakandeswarar (Padikarai Nathar), with AmirthavalliUndetermined—Paadal Petra Sthalam
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Shiva temple on the banks of the Kaveri at Iluppaipattu in Mayiladuthurai district, also known as Tirumannippadikkarai. It is one of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams praised in the early medieval Tevaram hymns of the Nayanar saint Sundarar.