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High medieval · Hindu · India
Tiruvidaivasal Punniyakodiyappar Temple
Tiruvidaivasal, Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu · 10.7561°, 79.5053°
Shiva (Punniyakodiyappar), with Parvati as AbiramaniUndetermined—Paadal Petra Sthalam
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Shiva temple at Tiruvidaivasal in Tiruvarur district counted among the Paadal Petra Sthalams, the shrines hymned in the Tevaram. Its Tevaram hymn by Gnanasambandar was recovered only in 1917, which raised the recognised total of such temples to 275.