Hindu / Shaiva / Murugan / Tamil - Location: Palani, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu (10.4517°N, 77.5192°E) Palani is 3rd of the 6 Padai Veedu (battle-camps) of Murugan. The deity is Daṇḍāyudhapāṇi — Murugan as ascetic-mendicant, having lost the fruit-of-jñāna contest to his brother Ganesha and retired here to meditate. The idol is made of Nava-pāṣāṇa — 9 poisonous herbal-mineral compounds that are abhiṣeka'd with milk daily; the abhiṣeka milk is said to have medicinal properties. Pilgrims clim
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