Thiruppullani
Tamil Nadu
The Adi Jagannatha Temple is a South Indian Hindu temple in Thiruppullani, a village in the outskirts of Ramanathapuram in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu. It is believed that Rama used grass ('pul' in Tamil as a pillow to sleep and hence the village attained the name Thiruppullani. Constructed in the Cholan style of architecture, the temple is glorified in the Naalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE. It is one of the 108 Divya Desam dedicated to Vishnu, who is worshipped as Adi Jagannatha and his consort Lakshmi as Padmasini.
From the Wikipedia article Adi Jagannatha Perumal Temple, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where it is
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How to reach
- By train: nearest station Rameswaram railway station (RMM), about 65 km by road.
- By air: Madurai International Airport (IXM), about 127 km by road.
In-depth temple guides nearby
- Arulmigu Ramanathaswamy Temple – Rameswaram island, Ramanathapuram district (about 66 km)
- Arulmigu Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple – Madurai, Madurai district (about 132 km)
- Arulmigu Subramaniyaswamy Temple, Thiruparankundram – Thiruparankundram, Madurai district (about 8 km south-west of Madurai city) (about 133 km)
- Arulmigu Murugan Temple, Pazhamudircholai (Solaimalai) – Solaimalai, Alagar hills, above Alagar Kovil, Madurai district (approx. 25 km north-east of Madurai) (about 140 km)
- Arulmigu Subramania Swamy Temple, Tiruchendur – Tiruchendur, Thoothukudi district (on the shore of the Gulf of Mannar) (about 147 km)
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