Kapaleeshwarar Temple
Towering Dravidian Shiva temple with a tall gateway tower and famous spring palanquin processions.
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This audio guide to Kapaleeshwarar Temple in Chennai's Mylapore follows Poompavai, a rich merchant's daughter, and the clay urn her father kept in her room after a snakebite took her at twelve. It brings in Thirugnana Sambandar, one of the Tamil poet-saints of Shiva, and the day he asked for that urn to be carried to this temple's gate. The sixty-three Nayanmars, whose bronze images circle the four streets outside during the Panguni festival, are part of the picture too.
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