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Madurai (mədŏŏrī´), city (1991 pop. 1,085,914), Tamil Nadu 1 state, S India, on the Vaigai River. It is known as the 'city of festivals and temples' and is the second largest city in Tamil Nadu 2. Madurai Parliamentary Constituency Map, General (Lok Sabha) Election Results, winner, runner up, current sitting MP, list of Madurai MP till date and other information about Madurai parliamentary.
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Kan sastri. Skanda Shasti is the 6-day power time to access Muruga’s spiritual warrior energy to defeat the negative and unhealthy energy of debts, diseases, legal issues, enemies and bad karma. Recent epigraphical evidence supports the period of 537–570 CE, whereas older generation historians like T.V. Mahalingam claimed it to be 575–615 CE. KAN Sastri tentatively places Simhavishnu's reign.
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Political map shows how people have divided up the world into countries and administrative regions such as states, counties, provinces, municipalities and postal zones. Different colors represent different countries and regions, whereas different shades of one color represent their internal divisions.
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Sigle color outside
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Simple geographic map projection
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The Plate Carree projection is a variant of the equidistant cylindrical projection, which originates in ancient times. All meridians and parallels are straight, equally spaced, and meet at right angles. This means that each degree of latitude and longitude is of the same size over the entire world map.
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MADURAI Formerly called Madura, Madurai is the second-largest city in Tamil Nadu. It is located on the river Vaigai and is surrounded by the Anai (elephant), Naga (snake), and Pasu (cow) hills. Between the first and fifth centuries a.d. it was the capital of the Pandya dynasty when three dynasties—the Pandyas, the Cheras, and the Cholas—ruled South India. In the medieval period it was the capital of the medieval Pandyas (6th–10th centuries), and in the mid-sixteenth century it was the capital of the Nayaka dynasty, founded by Vishvanatha around 1529, which came to an end in 1736. In 1801 it came under control of the British. Madurai was most renowned for its Tamil academy (sangam, or cankam) from about the second century a.d. Over two thousand sangam poems are extant in nine anthologies written by some five hundred poets. In addition, the Tolkappiyam grammar tells us not only about the grammar of the early Tamil language but also a great deal about their social life, from their castes based on geographical location to their matriarchal succession. The city was occupied and sacked around 1310 by the Muslim Tughluqs from Delhi and for almost fifty years was a province of the Tughluq empire. It was rebuilt by the Nayakas, originally viceroys of Vijayanagar; its walls were demolished by the British in 1837 to allow for expansion. Madurai-Kamaraj University was established in 1966.
The heart of the old city was built by the Nayakas and corresponds to the classical Hindu square mandala oriented to the four cardinal directions. In the center is the great Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple (koyil) complex,dedicated to the god Shiva and comprising two separate sanctuaries and twelve towered gateways ( gopuras). Minakshi ('fish-shaped eyes,' a metaphor for feminine beauty) is the goddess Devī or Shakti, a warrior queen, and Sundareshvara (beautiful lord) is her husband, the god Shiva; after their marriage they are depicted as monarchs. The god Vishnu, in Tamil mythology Shiva's brother-in-law, gave the bride away in marriage. The temple is usually known as the Minakshi Temple, after the local popularity and preeminence of the goddess. Coronation and marriage festivals about the two deities dominate the ritual life of the city. The Chittirai festival celebrates their coronation and marriage. A series of plays (lilas) are the main events of the Avani Mula festival, and in the Teppa Festival, the deities are portrayed as monarchs, placed on a raft, and pulled around the golden lily tank.
Roger D. Long
See alsoChola Dynasty; Literature, Tamil; Shiva and Shaivism
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Mitchell, George, ed. Temple Towns of Tamil Nadu. Mumbai: Marg Publications, 1993.
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Thapar, Romila. Early India: From the Origins toA.D. 1300. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.