Papanasam
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| State : | Tamil Nadu | ||
| District : | Thanjavur | ||
| Sub-district : | Papanasam | ||
| Location : | 10 ° 56 ' N , 79 ° 16' E | ||
| Height : | 37 m | ||
| Residents : | 17,548 (2011) | ||
Papanasam ( Tamil : பாபநாசம் Pāpanācam [ ˈpaːβənaːsʌm ]) is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . The population is around 18,000 (2011 census).
Papanasam is located in the Kaveri Delta in the Thanjavur district . The city lies on the south bank of the Kudamurutti , one of the mouths of the Kaveri. The next largest city is Kumbakonam 15 kilometers east. The district capital Thanjavur is 25 kilometers southwest. The distance to Chennai (Madras), the capital of Tamil Nadu, is 295 kilometers. Papanasam is connected to the railway network via the Thanjavur-Kumbakonam line. The city is the capital of the Taluk Papanasam .
The name Papanasam means "destruction of sins". The city is home to an important Hindu temple, the Palaivananathar Temple, which is dedicated to the god Shiva . The sanctuary was built in the 7th / 8th Century sung under the name Tiruppalaitturai in the Tevaram hymns of the poet saint Appar . This makes Papanasam one of the 274 holy places of Tamil Shaivism ( Padal Petra Sthalams ).
Papanasam is the birthplace of the spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (born 1956). In the immediate vicinity is the village of Uthamadhanapuram , the hometown of the important Tamil philologist UV Swaminatha Iyer (1855-1942). There is a memorial in Swaminatha Iyer's childhood home.
77 percent of the population of Papanasam are Hindus , 15 percent Muslim and 8 percent Christian . As in all of Tamil Nadu, the main language is Tamil, which is spoken by 99 percent of the population as their mother tongue.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Census of India 2011: Primary Census Abstract Data Tables: Thanjavur.
- ↑ Entry "pālaittuṟai (பாலைத்துறை)" in VM Subramanya Aiyar, Jean-Luc Chevillard, SAS Sarma: Digital Tēvāram. Kaṇiṉit Tēvāram, Indologie Collection n ° 103, Institut Français de Pondichéry / École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2007. ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Census of India 2011: C-1 Population By Religious Community. Tamil Nadu.
- ↑ Census of India 2001: C-16 City: Population by Mother Tongue (Tamil Nadu), accessed under Tabulations Plan of Census Year - 2001 .
