Meenakshi Amman Temple
Sundareswarar

Sundareswarar

Role
Presiding deity

Also known as Chokkanathar and Sundara Pandyan. The temple tradition holds that he married Meenakshi and ruled Madurai with her, and he is the protagonist of the sixty-four Thiruvilaiyadal episodes. He is worshipped in the form of a swayambhu lingam.

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