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High medieval · Hindu · India
Panchavatee Hanuman Temple
Pappanchavadi, Vanur taluk (Viluppuram district), Tamil Nadu · 12.0097°, 79.7722°
Panchamukha Anjaneya, the five-faced HanumanUndetermined—
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Hanuman temple in the village of Pappanchavadi in Vanur taluk, about nine kilometres from Puducherry, where the deity is worshipped in his five-faced Panchamukha form.