Pandi Muneeswarar (Tamil: பாண்டி முனீஸ்வரர்) is the most widely venerated regional form of Muneeswarar (also Muniyandi, "lord-sage"), a Shaiva-folk deity class that occupies the interstitial theological space between Bhairava, Ayyanar, and Karuppu Sami. The prefix Pandi marks him as specifically the Muneeswarar of the Pandya country — i.e., the Madurai-centered historical Pandya kingdom — and reflects a very deliberate choice by Tamil villagers to claim Pandya genealogical authority
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