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HISTORY OF THIRUKOLUR AND VAITHAMANIDHI PERUMAL TEMPLE IN TIRUCHENDUR TALUK Abstract As the God fearing people, the Tamils never preferred to settle in villages which had no temple and considered such villages as haunted places and unfit for human inhabitation. The temple is a place where God dwells in various forms embodied in sacred images or Symbols of deities which constitute the most important part of Hindu art. The images that were formed under the trees became temples made consequently on bricks being used for constructing temples. Since then several kinds of temples have come into existence. Silapathikaram contains reference about Vishnu temple. The Sixth and Seventh centuries A.D. was marked by the adoption of stone as medium by the Hindu and Jains of South India. The temples of South India still survive in thousands and are in use and maintain their importance and sanctity. The contributing factors for the state of the South Indian temple are the comparative freedom from foreign invasions and disruption in peninsular India, the strength and stability of the Kingdoms. The great empires of the South, the Chalukyas the Pallavas, the early Pandyas, the later cholas and the later Pandyas extended their patronage for the construction of the temples

TenTiruperai, Navathirupathi, Thirukolur, Vaithamanithi temple

"HISTORY OF THIRUKOLUR AND VAITHAMANIDHI PERUMAL TEMPLE IN TIRUCHENDUR TALUK", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no.1295-1298, February-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002187.pdf

"HISTORY OF THIRUKOLUR AND VAITHAMANIDHI PERUMAL TEMPLE IN TIRUCHENDUR TALUK", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no. pp1295-1298, February-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002187.pdf