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High medieval · Hindu · India
Talapurisvarar Temple
திருப்பனங்காடு தாளபுரீஸ்வரர் கோயில்
Tiruppanangadu (Panankattur), Tamil Nadu · 12.8009°, 79.6135°
Shiva (Talapurisvarar, also called Panangattisvarar)Undetermined—Paadal Petra Sthalam
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Shiva temple in Tiruvannamalai district celebrated in the hymns of the saint Sundarar, which makes it a Paadal Petra Sthalam. It keeps an active festival calendar including an annual Brahmotsavam.