Thiruvaiyaru
| Thiruvaiyaru திருவையாறு |
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| State : | Tamil Nadu | ||
| District : | Thanjavur | ||
| Sub-district : | Thiruvaiyaru | ||
| Location : | 10 ° 53 ' N , 79 ° 7' E | ||
| Height : | 17 m | ||
| Residents : | 16,164 (2011) | ||
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Thiruvaiyaru ( Tamil : திருவையாறு Tiruvaiyāṟu [ ˈt̪irɯˌʋai̯jaːrɯ ], also Tiruvaiyaru ) is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . The population is around 16,000 (2011 census).
Thiruvaiyaru is located in the Kaveri Delta on the north bank of the Kaveri main arm in the Thanjavur district, 14 kilometers north of the district capital Thanjavur . The distance to Chennai (Madras), the capital of Tamil Nadu, is 340 kilometers. Thiruvaiyaru is the capital of the talk Thiruvaiyaru .
Thiruvaiyaru is home to an important Hindu temple, the Aiyarappar temple, which is dedicated to the god Shiva . The sanctuary was built in the 7th / 8th Century sung in the Tevaram hymns of the poet saints Appar , Sundarar and Sambandar . Thiruvaiyaru is one of the 274 holy places of Tamil Shaivism ( Padal Petra Sthalams ).
92 percent of Thiruvaiyaru's residents are Hindus , 5 percent are Christians and 2 percent are Muslims . As in all of Tamil Nadu, the main language is Tamil, which is spoken by 98 percent of the population as their mother tongue.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Census of India 2011: Primary Census Abstract Data Tables: Thanjavur.
- ↑ Entry "aiyāṟu (ஐயாறு)" 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 .
