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High medieval · Hindu · India
Rishabesvarar Temple, Sengam
Sengam, Tiruvannamalai district, Tamil Nadu · 12.3114°, 78.7898°
Shiva (Rishabesvarar), with the goddess AnubambikaiUndetermined—
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Shiva temple at Sengam counted among the Vaippu Sthalams sung by Appar. The settlement appears as Sengama in the Sangam poem Malaipatukatam and was later known as both Sengam and Kannai.