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6th Padai Veedu — Murugan of the ancient fruit grove
6th Padai Veedu — Murugan of the ancient fruit grove
6th Padai Veedu — Murugan of the ancient fruit grove
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Hindu / Shaiva / Murugan / Tamil
Pazhamudircholai ("ancient fruit-grove") — 6th of the 6 Padai Veedu. This is where the Tamil poetess Āṇḍāḷ (of the Divya Prabandham) came to sing; Murugan himself appeared as a young Tamil poet and engaged her in a verse-contest. The shrine sits in a high hilltop grove of 108-year mango trees. Adjoining the Vishnu-Alagar Koyil (the Divya Desam of Alagar).
India's sacred landscape embraces Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Zoroastrian, tribal, regional-folk traditions — each with its own cosmology and priestly lineage. This entry honours Hindu on its own terms.
