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Mondipalayam, Tiruppur district, Tamil Nadu · 11.2942°, 77.1647°
A sixteenth-century Vishnu temple in Kongunadu style at Mondipalayam near Avinashi in Tiruppur district, known as Melathiruppathi and treated as a substitute Tirupati by devotees who cannot travel to Tirumala. The self-manifested image is flat-sided with a conical centre, and its Thirukalyana Utsavam is timed to the Tirumala ceremony.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
A man named Kondamanaicker is said to have noticed his cow letting down milk on a sandhill and, digging there, to have uncovered the image bearing the conch and discus.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined
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