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High medieval · Hindu · India
Thiruvettisvarar Temple, Thiruvettisvaranpettai
Thiruvettisvaranpettai, Triplicane, Chennai, Tamil Nadu · 13.0613°, 80.2726°
Shiva (Thiruvettisvarar), with the goddess Maragathavalli (Senbagambikai)Undetermined—
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Shiva temple on Triplicane High Road in Chennai, also called Thirupattinam and counted among the Vaippu Sthalams sung by Appar. Hymns of Pamban Swamigal and Ramalinga Swamigal are inscribed here, and stucco panels depict the six abodes of Murugan.