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Early medieval · Hindu · India
Marudhamalai Temple
Marudhamalai, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu · 11.0461°, 76.8519°
Murugan (as Murudhachalamurthy)Undetermined—
Sacred since
800 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
c. 1,200 years old
Undetermined
History & significance
A hilltop Murugan temple northwest of Coimbatore, regarded as the god's seventh abode and reached by a ghat road or some 837 steps. The medieval saint Arunagirinathar sang of it in the Thiruppugal, and a cave shrine to Pambatti Siddhar adjoins it.