TIRUVANNAMALAI

Tiruvannamalai Tirukkoil enshrining one of the twelve Jyothirlingas is a reputed Saiva Kshetra of perennial significance of the highest order. Its association with Trimurthis - Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswar, and subsequent habitation by saint -
poets, sage-seers, rajadhirajas, British bhaktas, and countless beneficiaries transformed this seemingly a rugged mount into a Saiva yatrasthala of eternal importance. 

Its attraction for religionists and tourists, of all nationals, takes back to ancient times, to be precise; the beginning of Kritayuga. Right from the Vedas down to sthalamahatmyams, every genre of literature abounds in evidence of great profusion of Maheswar's sports played on this scared place, and his remaining willingly in the form of hill for lifting mankind, buried in the watery grave of Samsara.

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