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Avudaiyar Koil

Avudaiyarkoil also know as Thiruperunthurai is located in Pudhukottai ,Tamil Nadu. The word Koil itself suggest that this place is famous for temple. This temple is well known for its stone sculptures. It is beleived that Britishers refused to beleive that all the sculptures are made by stones, so they shot the sculptures and found it broken the next minute. There are chain, Lamp and wonderful sculptures made up of stones.

The minute details in the sculpture is worth seeing infinite number of times.This is the only place where the devotees pray god's sitting place and goddesses inverted feet.Only offering given to the god is the vapour from the white rice.There lies the name reason for Avudaiyar Koil- "Avi" means vapour and "vudaiyar" means having.One among the four fore fathers is Manikkavasagar. King has given money to him to buy horses but instead due the overwhelming love towards lord siva he built this with that money.It is this place where he wrote "Sivapuranam"