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High medieval · Hindu · India
Tirukkandalam Sivanandeswarar Temple
Tirukkandalam, Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu · 13.2453°, 80.0953°
Shiva as Sivanandeswarar (consort Anandavalli Ammai)Undetermined—Paadal Petra Sthalam
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Shiva temple at Tirukkandalam, formerly Tirukkallil, in Tiruvallur district, counted among the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams. It was sung by the Nayanar saint Sambandar in the early medieval Tevaram hymns.