Arulmigu Marundeeswarar Temple
Ancient seaside Shiva shrine of healing, its lingam said to bear the hoofprints of a sacred cow.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Arulmigu Marundeeswarar Temple in Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai, starts on an October Friday in twenty twenty, when staff opened up in the early hours and found the donation boxes broken. It follows the police into the CCTV footage, then back into the temple's oldest legend of the celestial cow Kamadhenu and a curse laid by the sage Vasishta. Best heard facing the main shrine.
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