Piran Malai
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| height | 746 m | |
| location | India , Tamil Nadu , Sivaganga District | |
| Coordinates | 10 ° 14 '44 " N , 78 ° 26' 53" E | |
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Piranmalai ( Tamil : பிரான்மலை Pirāṉmalai [ ˈpiraːnmalɛi̯ ], also Piran Malai ) is a mountain in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . It is an isolated branch of the Eastern Ghats and has an altitude of 746 meters above sea level. The Piranmalai Mountain is located in southern Tamil Nadu around 60 kilometers northeast of Madurai and 85 kilometers southwest of Tiruchirappalli . Administratively it belongs to the Taluk Tirupathur of the Sivaganga district . At the foot of the mountain is the village of the same name, Piranmalai, with a population of 4,145 (2011 census).
The Piranmalai is identified with the mountain Parambu, which is mentioned several times in the old Tamil Sangam literature as the place of the high fortress of Prince Pari . At the foot of the mountain there is a Hindu temple in which the god Shiva is worshiped under the name Kodunkundranathar . This was sung in the 7th century in the Tevaram hymns of the poet saint Sambandar . Piranmalai is one of the 274 holy places of Tamil Shaivism ( Padal Petra Sthalams ). At the top of the mountain is an Islamic sanctuary, the Dargah ("holy tomb") of the Sufi saint Waliyullah Sheikh Abdullah Saheb.
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- ↑ See the elevation of 2449 feet in the map India and Pakistan 1: 250,000, Series U502, US Army Map Service, 1955-, sheet NC 43-8 Dindigul .
- ^ Census of India 2011.
- ^ John R. Marr: The Eight Anthologies: A Study in Early Tamil Literature, Madras: Institute of Asian Studies, 1985, p. 190.
- ↑ Entry "koṭuṅkuṉṟam (கொடுங்குன்றம்)" 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.
