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Village in Tamil Nadu, India
Photo: Vijayakumar Ramasubbu, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Thiruvakkarai, a village at the outskirts of Pondicherry, is home to a Chola temple and a wood fossil park.
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Piraisoodiya Emperuman, Vakrakali Temple
A Shiva temple believed to have been built during the Chola period in the 10th century. The temple has received gracious endowments from the Chola queen Sembiyan Mahadevi. Shiva is worshipped as Chandramowleeswarar and his consort Parvati as Amirthambigai.
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Puducherry (Pondicherry) · Regional · PNY
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