This is a cluster entry: rather than cataloguing a single deity, it names the unified ritual-political geography that the Madurai Nayaks (1529–1736 CE) deliberately engineered out of an older, more diffuse set of shrines, and that now binds every individual entry in the Madurai T0 cluster into a single system. Branfoot (2007) and Shulman & Subrahmanyam (1990) have shown conclusively that this unification was not organic but architectural and administrative — a deliberate Nayak project to mak
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