Thiruvarur

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Tiruvarur (Tamil: திருவாரூர் Tiruvarur [ tiɾɯʋa ː ɾu ː r], also: Thiruvarur or Tiruvalur, not to be confused with Tiruvallur ) is a city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It lies in the east of Tamil Nadu in the delta of the Kaveri. The next largest cities are located on the Coromandel Coast 24 kilometers east of Nagapattinam and Thanjavur 56 km southwest. Chennai, the capital of the state is located approximately 260 kilometers north. Tiruvarur is the administrative seat of the district of the same name. At the 2001 census, 56,280 residents were registered.

The center Tiruvarurs forms of Hindu Tyagaraja Temple. The approximately eight -acre temple complex houses shrines for the deities Vanmikanathar, Tyagaraja (both manifestations of Shiva ) and Kamalamba ( the consort of the god ). Right next to the temple is the Kamalalayam Pond, which is one with an area of ​​about ten acres of the largest temple ponds of India. Tiruvarur was sung in the 7th century in the devotional hymns of the poet Tirugnanasambandar and Tirunavukkarasar. The oldest inscriptions in the Tyagaraja temple come from the Chola kings of the 9th and 10th centuries.

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, specified the form