 The
Temple of Chandramouleeswarar and Vakkara Kali,
Thiruvakkarai is in Tindivanam Taluk and used to be
a part of erstwhile South Arcot District of Tamil
Nadu in 1983
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 Hundred
Pillar Mantapam
The temple complex in Tiruvakarai houses shrines,
both to Shiva and Vishnu apart from Mother Kali
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 Worship
of Shiva and Devi
The inscriptions say that Queen Ulagamuzhudhudaiyal
constructed this Mantapam in 1286 AD
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 Other
Shrines at Tiruvakkarai
In the inner prakaram we can worship the deities of
Ganapathi, Dhakshinamurthy, Vishnu with Lakshmi
Prayoka Chakra and Lingam
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 Presence
of Devdasis in Tiruvakkarai and other temples
The inscriptions in the temple of Tiruvakkarai point
to the existence of Devdasis in the temple, as was
the custom in many Hindu temples
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Temple Devdasis
Another scholar who worked with the Devdasis was the
famous carnatic singer Dr. Shyamala Balakrishnan,
the sister-in-law of Dr. Padma Subramanium
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