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UNIQUENESS:
Kanchi
enjoys the rare privilege of treasuring up a unique temple culture that none
but Kanchi alone could claim eqality with it in matters of spiritual height
it scaled commercial superiority
it established and political might it displayed It has been enriching the glory
of our-much venerated Hinduism by its spectacular achievements, in almost all
fields since the Vedic times. Its unprecedented renown springing from more than
one segment of national life caned out for itself a meritorious niche in the
cultural history of our Akhanda Bharatha Khanda. It is a temple city with
a speciality of high order. It is to this self - same place, Parvathi was
directed to descend to doing penance to purge of the sin of insulting her own
Pati, it is this city that was deemed by Lord Siva as one of his two eyes, the
other being Kasi, it is this holy kshetra that enshrines the Prithvilinga
representing one of the five elements it is this Punya Kshetra that was on par
with Kasi the much hallowed thirtha kshetra and also adorns the list of five
indispensable pilgrimage centres, it is this Punya kshetra that vas chosen by
Sankara Bhagavatpada for establishing one of the Kamakoti
Peethas for spreading Vedic Dharma, it is this august place that
set limits to the presiding Ideity - Kamakshi, Ambika by none but a mortal - Sri
Sankaracharya, it is this place that was visited by Bhagawan Buddha and has the
honour of listening to his amongha Dharma, it is this city that enjoyed the
status of capital city of Tondan Mandalam for centuries and it was here during
the Sangam period, literatures thrilled the scholars with royal banquets.
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