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Thirumalai Kovil

Panpoli, Sengottai (Tenkasi district), Tamil Nadu · 8.9483°, 77.2750°

MuruganModernDravidian

Sacred since

1800 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

19th c. (Sivakami Ammaiyar)

Modern

History & significance

A hilltop Murugan shrine near Sengottai in the Western Ghats, reached by 625 steps, and one of the Vaippu Sthalam shrines named in the Nayanar hymns. The present temple was funded in the nineteenth century by Thiruvarutchelvar Sivakami Ammaiyar, who sold all her property to pay for it.

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