Kalyanasundaresar Temple, Nallur or Thirunallur is a Hindu temple dedicated to the deity Shiva in Nallur, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located 10 km away from Kumbakonam, 6 km east of Thirukkarugavur, and
View of the Kalyanasundaresar temple tower
Image of the Vimanam, the shrine over the sanctum
Sapthasagaram, the temple tank located outside the main entrance of the temple
A shrine in the second precinct of the temple as seen from the hillock
Sambandar
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Sambandar, also referred to as Tirujnana Sambandar or Gnana Sambanthar, was a Shaiva poet-saint of Tamil Nadu who lived sometime in the 7th century CE. According to the Tamil Shaiva tradition, he comp
Kalyanasundaresar Temple, Nallur
…and his wife on the scale pan. Shiva was pleased by the devotion of the Nayanar and bestowed him with all his wishes. The 7th-century Nayanar saints Sambandar and Appar wrote of the temple in their poetic work, Tevaram. The original masonry and towers date back to the 9th century CE, as seen from an inscription…
A copper alloy sculpture of Sambandar with forefinger pointing slightly up (symbolically towards Parvati and Shiva)
Amirthakadaieeshwarar temple relief depicting Appar bearing Sambandar's palanquin
The Child Saint Sambandar, chola bronze, 12th century India, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Sambandar (Wooden Image), ASI Museum, Vellore