Vannakkudi

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Vannakkudi
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Coordinates: 11°00′00″N79°28′06″E / 10.999912°N 79.468279°E / 10.999912; 79.468279 Coordinates: 11°00′00″N79°28′06″E / 10.999912°N 79.468279°E / 10.999912; 79.468279
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State Tamil Nadu
District Thanjavur
Taluk Thiruvidaimarudur
Languages
  Official Tamil
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)

Vannakkudi is a village in the Thiruvidaimarudur taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, in India.

Thanjavur district District in Tamil Nadu, India

Thanjavur District is one of the 32 districts of the state of Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India. Its headquarters is Thanjavur. The district is located in the delta of the Cauvery River and is mostly agrarian. As of 2011, Thanjavur district had a population of 2,405,890 with a sex-ratio of 1,035 females for every 1,000 males.

Tamil Nadu State in Southern India

Tamil Nadu is one of the 29 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian subcontinent and is bordered by the union territory of Puducherry and the South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. It is bounded by the Eastern Ghats on the north, by the Nilgiri Mountains, the Meghamalai Hills, and Kerala on the west, by the Bay of Bengal in the east, by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait on the southeast, and by the Indian Ocean on the south. The state shares a maritime border with the nation of Sri Lanka.

India Country in South Asia

India, also known as the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by area and with more than 1.3 billion people, it is the second most populous country as well as the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Famous places

This village contains the Mariyamman temple and Samadhi of Vikrama Chozan just 1 km east of Mahalineswarar temple Thiruvidaimarudur - Lingathadi thidal - presently a private property. It was known Thiyagasamudra Chaturvedi mangalam during Vikrama period then renamed as Kulothunga chozha charutvedi Mangalam and eastern road to Vannakkudi was called Rajakkal Thambiran Thirveedhi.

Temple structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities

A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. It is typically used for such buildings belonging to all faiths where a more specific term such as church, mosque or synagogue is not generally used in English. These include Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism among religions with many modern followers, as well as other ancient religions such as Ancient Egyptian religion.


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