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According to Iravatham Mahadevan, a 2nd-century BCE Tamil-Brahmi inscription refers to the city as matiray, an Old Tamil word meaning a "walled city". [20]Madurai is one of the many temple towns known as Kadambavanam for its historic temples in India which is named after the groves, clusters or forests dominated by a particular variety of a tree or shrub and the same variety of tree or shrub ...
Madurai has been inhabited since at least the 3rd century BCE. [6] Megasthenes may have visited Madurai during the 3rd century BCE, with the city referred as "Methora" in his accounts. [ 7 ] The view is contested by some scholars who believe "Methora" refers to the north Indian city of Mathura , as it was a large and established city in the ...
Madurai district is one of the 38 districts of the state of Tamil Nadu in southeastern India. [1] [3] The city of Madurai serves as the district headquarters.It houses the famous Sri Meenakshi Sundareshwarar temple and is situated on the banks of the river Vaigai.
Yali in pillars at Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple. Madurai Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple was built by Pandyan Emperor Sadayavarman Kulasekaran I (1190 CE–1205 CE). He built the main portions of the three-storeyed Gopuram at the entrance of Sundareswarar Shrine and the central portion of the Goddess Meenakshi Shrine, which are some of the earliest surviving parts of the temple.
Districts of Madras in 1956 with 2009 boundaries in gray. During the British Raj, the Madras Presidency was made up of 26 districts, 12 of which were part of the boundaries of the present-day Tamil Nadu, namely, Chingleput, Coimbatore, Nilgiris, North Arcot, Madras, Madura, Ramnad, Salem, South Arcot, Tanjore, Tinnevely, and Trichinopoly.
Vilangudi, Madurai This page was last edited on 9 July 2021, at 05:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Corporation of Madurai is the civic body which administers the city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India.Madurai is one of the oldest living cities in the world. Formed on 1 May 1971 as the first Municipal Corporation in Tamil Nadu post independence, it is the third largest municipal corporation in Tamil Nadu in population and revenue.
Gopi Shankar Madurai [2] - The Commonwealth Awardee, [3] [4] Youngest candidate in the Tamil Nadu Assembly election and also the first openly Intersex & Genderqueer person to do so.