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KANCHEEPURAM |
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| The great Tamil
work Kanda Puranam and Kanchi Puranam were composed here. Tyagaraja also has sung about
Lord Varadaraja and the Goddess Kamakshi Devi. Kanchi is the birthplace of the famous
historian Chanakya, also called as Kautilya, of the Maurya Empire. As both Saivite and
Vaishnavite saints with their great learning flourished in the 6th and 7th centuries, they
made Kanchi a great seat of learning of Sanskrit and Hindu religion, next only to Kasi. Kancheepuram is the Banaras of the South. Saint Appar has sung of the city as
of boundless learning. The catholicity of the Hindu religion allowed both the sects to
flourish side by side under the influence of their different tenets. The Saivite
stronghold is Big Kanchi known as Siva Kanchi and the Vaishnavite stronghold is Little
Kanchi or Vishnu Kanchi. Both combined form the city of Kancheepuram. - It is said in Brahmanda
Purana that Kasi and Kanchi are like the two eyes of Siva. Kanchi Kamakshi and Kasi
Visalakshi are always spoken of together. |
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