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Manavalanallur, Virudhachalam, Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu · 11.5219°, 79.2997°
A Murugan temple on the outskirts of Virudhachalam with a five-tiered rajagopuram, pillared hall and sanctum, administered by the Tamil Nadu HR&CE department; Panguni Uthiram, a ten-day Vasantha Utsavam and the Adi festival are its main celebrations.
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.
Tradition holds that Shiva sent his son Murugan as a hunter into the Kolanji forest to test the saint Sundarar, and that Murugan afterwards settled there as Kolanjiappar; another account says a cow was found mysteriously giving milk beneath a kolanji bush at the site.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined
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