Place · Murugan shrine · India
Thiruthani / Thiruttani
Also known as Thiruthani, Thiruttani
The hill shrine of Murugan at Tiruttani in Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu, at the northern edge of Tamil country near the Andhra border — one of the six Arupadaiveedu abodes of Murugan and the one that marks the Tamil regional boundary. Murugan is said to have married Valli, the hunter-tribal maiden, here, in a shrine 100 kilometres north of Chennai reached by 365 steps. The temple is Chola-period in origin with Vijayanagara expansion. The composer Muthuswami Dikshitar's 'Tiruttani Varagi' kriti sings the shrine. The second president of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan — born 15 kilometres away — considered Tiruttani his family deity.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Tradition
- Tamil Murugan tradition
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 13.178, 79.610
Connections (1)
- Devotional corpus onMuthuswāmi Dīkshitar
Muthuswāmi Dīkshitar is said to have had a vision at Thiruttani in which Murugan put sugar candy in his mouth, after which he composed the first of his kritis. He took Guruguha, a name of Murugan, as the signature in every song he wrote thereafter, so the whole corpus carries this hill in it.
On these journeys
Sources
Arupadai Veedu — six abodes of Murugan
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