Thiruvidaimarudur
| Thiruvidaimarudur திருவிடைமருதூர் |
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| State : | Tamil Nadu | ||
| District : | Thanjavur | ||
| Sub-district : | Thiruvidaimarudur | ||
| Location : | 11 ° 0 ′ N , 79 ° 27 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 14,786 (2011) | ||
Thiruvidaimarudur ( Tamil : திருவிடைமருதூர் Tiruviṭaimarutūr [ ˈt̪irɯˌʋiɖɛi̯ˌmarɯd̪uːr ], also Thiruvithaimaruthur ) is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . The population is around 15,000 (2011 census).
Thiruvidaimarudur is located in the Kaveri Delta in the Thanjavur district . The next largest city is Kumbakonam eleven kilometers west. The district capital Thanjavur is 50 kilometers away, to Chennai (Madras), the capital of Tamil Nadu, it is 280 kilometers. Thiruvidaimarudur is the capital of the talk Thiruvidaimarudur .
Thiruvidaimarudur is home to an important Hindu temple, the Mahalingeswarar temple, which is dedicated to the god Shiva . The sanctuary of Thiruvidaimarudur was built in the 7th / 8th centuries. Century sung in the Tevaram hymns of the poet saints Appar , Sundarar and Sambandar . Thiruvidaimarudur is one of the 274 holy places of Tamil Shaivism ( Padal Petra Sthalams ). Today's temple dates back to the Chola period. Around 973, an older brick temple was replaced by a stone temple. In the centuries that followed, this was expanded to form a spacious temple complex with three areas ( prakaras ) and high gate towers ( gopurams ) divided by concentric wall rings . The innermost prakara - the oldest part of the temple - was completely demolished around 1907 in the course of a temple renovation sponsored by wealthy traders from the Nattukottai Chettiar caste and replaced by a new building.
83 percent of the population of Thiruvidaimarudur are Hindus , 11 percent Muslim and 6 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 "iṭaimarutūr (இடைமருதூர்)" 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.
- ↑ Crispin Branfoot: “Remaking the Past: Tamil Sacred Landscape and Temple Renovations”, in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 76 (1) (2013), pp. 21–47, here pp. 37–40.
- ^ 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 .
