Oottathur
| Oottathur ஊட்டத்தூர் |
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| State : | Tamil Nadu | ||
| District : | Tiruchirappalli | ||
| Sub-district : | Lalgudi | ||
| Location : | 11 ° 4 ′ N , 78 ° 51 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 3,741 (2011) | ||
Oottathur ( Tamil : ஊட்டத்தூர் Ūṭṭattūr [ ˈuːʈːʌt̪ːuːr ] or ஊற்றத்தூர் Ūṟṟattūr [ ˈuːtːrʌt̪ːuːr ], also Ootathur ) is a village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . It is located around 40 kilometers north of the city of Tiruchirappalli in central Tamil Nadu. Administratively, Oottathur belongs to the Taluk Lalgudi of the Tiruchirappalli district . The population is around 3,700 (2011 census).
There are two large Hindu temples in Oottathur: the Suddharatneswarar temple, dedicated to the god Shiva , and the Perumal temple, dedicated to the god Vishnu . The Suddharatneswarar Temple is said to have been built around the year 1000 under the rule of the Chola King Rajaraja I instead of an older predecessor. In the 19th century the famous poet T. Meenakshisundaram visited Pillai Oottathur and wrote the Tiruvurai Patitruppattandadi, a poem in the Prabandham genre with 100 stanzas about the Shiva temple there.
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- ↑ Census of India 2011: Oottathur .
- ^ Sascha Ebeling: Colonizing the Realm of Words. The Transformation of Tamil Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century South India, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010, p. 56.