Tiruvarur

Tiruvarur ; திருவாரூர்
State :	India
State :	Tamil Nadu
District :	Tiruvarur
Location :	10 ° 46 ′ N , 79 ° 39 ′ E Coordinates: 10 ° 46 ′ N , 79 ° 39 ′ E
Height :	14 m
Residents :	58,301 (2011)
	In the Tyagaraja Temple of Tiruvarur

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Tiruvarur ( Tamil : திருவாரூர் Tiruvārūr [ ˈtiɾɯʋaːɾuːr ], also: Thiruvarur or Tiruvalur , not to be confused with Tiruvallur ) is a city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu . It is located in eastern Tamil Nadu in the mouth of the Kaveri delta . The next largest cities are the on the Coromandel Coast located Nagapattinam 24 kilometers east and Thanjavur 56 km south-west. Chennai , the capital of the state, is around 260 kilometers north. Tiruvarur is the administrative seat of the district of the same name . The population is around 58,000 (2011 census).

The Hindu Tyagaraja Temple forms the center of Tiruvarur . The approximately eight hectare temple complex houses shrines for the deities Vanmikanathar, Tyagaraja (both manifestations of Shiva ) and Kamalamba (the god's consort). Right next to the temple is the Kamalalayam pond, which, with an area of over ten hectares, is one of the largest temple ponds in India. Tiruvarur was sung in the 7th century in the devotional hymns of the poets Tirugnanasambandar and Tirunavukkarasar . The oldest inscriptions in the Tyagaraja Temple are from the Chola kings of the 9th and 10th centuries.

84 percent of the population of Tiruvarur are Hindus , 14 percent are Muslims and 1 percent are Christians . As in all of Tamil Nadu, the main language is Tamil, which is spoken by 99 percent of the population as their mother tongue.

The Kamalalayam Pond

sons and daughters of the town

Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775–1835) South Indian composer of the song genre Kriti with Sanskrit texts
Syama Sastri (1762–1827) composer and singer
Tyagaraja (1767–1847) most famous composer of Kritis, determined its form

Web links

Commons : Tiruvarur - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Census of India 2011.
^ 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 .

[1] Census of India 2011.

[2] Census of India 2011: C-1 Population By Religious Community. Tamil Nadu.

[3] Census of India 2001: C-16 City: Population by Mother Tongue (Tamil Nadu), accessed under Tabulations Plan of Census Year - 2001 .