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Mayuranathaswamy Temple, Mayiladuthurai&nbsp;or Mayuranathar Temple is a Hindu temple in the town of&nbsp;Mayiladuthurai&nbsp;(formerly known as&nbsp;Mayavaram&nbsp;or&nbsp;Mayuram) in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. The temple is dedicated to Lord Mayuranathaswamy, a form of&nbsp;Shiva, and has given its name to the town itself.

The main icon is a&nbsp;lingam&nbsp;and the presiding deity is called Mayuranathar because the Hindu goddess&nbsp;Parvathi&nbsp;worshipped Shiva here in the form of a&nbsp;mayura. 
On the day of the new moon in the Tamil month of&nbsp;Aippasi&nbsp;(November&ndash;December), religious Hindus have a ceremonial bath in the temple tank as it is believed to purify them from sins. An annual dance festival called the Mayura Natyanjali festival is celebrated within the precincts of the temple each year.

Thiruvayyaru,&nbsp;Mayiladuthurai,&nbsp;Thiruvidaimaruthur,&nbsp;Thiruvenkadu, Chayavanam and&nbsp;Srivanchiyam&nbsp;are considered equivalents of&nbsp;Kasi. Like in Kasi, where the city is centered around&nbsp;Kashi Vishwanath Temple, the temples in these towns along the banks of river&nbsp;Cauvery, namely,&nbsp;Aiyarappar temple&nbsp;in Thiruvaiyaru,&nbsp;Mahalingeswarar temple&nbsp;in&nbsp;Thiruvidaimarudur, Mayuranathaswamy temple in&nbsp;Mayiladuthurai,&nbsp;Chayavaneswarar temple&nbsp;in Sayavanam,&nbsp;Swetharanyeswarar temple&nbsp;in&nbsp;Thiruvenkadu,&nbsp;Srivanchinadhaswamy Koil&nbsp;in&nbsp;Srivanchiyam&nbsp;are the centerpieces of the towns.&nbsp;The temple is counted as one of the temples built on the banks of&nbsp;River Kaveri.

The temple is one of the canonical shrines of the 275&nbsp;Paadal Petra Sthalams&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;Shiva temples&nbsp;glorified in the early medieval&nbsp;Tevaram&nbsp;poems by Tamil Saivite&nbsp;Nayanar&nbsp;Tirugnanasambandar.

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The temple was built by the&nbsp;Medieval Cholas.[citation needed]&nbsp;The oldest inscriptions on the temple walls date to the time of&nbsp;Kulothunga Chola I.

Massive renovations were carried out during 1907&ndash;1927 by Devakottai AL. VR. P. Veerappa Chettiar and Pethaperumal Chettiar.&nbsp;In May 1927, a temple entry of&nbsp;Dalits&nbsp;was organised on a big scale by the proponents of the&nbsp;Self Respect Movement&nbsp;thereby resulting in a huge clash.

The Mayuranathaswami temple is located in the southern part of&nbsp;Mayiladuthurai&nbsp;about a mile from the&nbsp;Kaveri River.

The temple is on the&nbsp;Chidambaram&ndash;Thanjavur&nbsp;highway.The temple complex is 719 feet (219&nbsp;m) long and 520 feet (160&nbsp;m) wide.

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The&nbsp;gopura&nbsp;at the eastern entrance to the temple is nine storeys high&nbsp;and measures 194 feet (59&nbsp;m).[citation needed]&nbsp;The idol of&nbsp;Durga&nbsp;near the northern entrance of the temple is expertly sculpted and differs from those in other temples.

&nbsp;On the temple walls, there is the sculpture of a devotee trying to sever his head as an offering to the God.

There is an expansive temple tank in the centre of the complex. People travel in large numbers to Mayiladuthurai to bathe in this tank on the day of the new moon in the Tamil month of&nbsp;Aippasi&nbsp;(November&ndash;December).[citation needed]&nbsp;This bath purifies a person of sins because the waters of the river&nbsp;Ganges&nbsp;and other Indian rivers mingle with the waters of the&nbsp;Kaveri river&nbsp;in this tank on this particular day.

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Hindu goddess&nbsp;Parvathi&nbsp;in the form of a&nbsp;peahen&nbsp;worshipping a&nbsp;shivalinga

There are three smaller shrines to the Hindu god&nbsp;Ganesha&nbsp;and another to Shiva as&nbsp;Nataraja&nbsp;or &quot;Lord of Dance&quot;.&nbsp;One of the sculptures in the temple represent Shiva embracing Goddess Parvathi.&nbsp;According to&nbsp;Sthala Purana, the goddess&nbsp;Parvathi, the consort of&nbsp;Shiva, once offended him.

&nbsp;Shiva was so annoyed he cursed Parvathi to be born as a lowly&nbsp;peahen.&nbsp;Later, when Parvathi repented, Shiva reduced this sentence.

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Parvathi had to pray first at&nbsp;Mylapore&nbsp;and then at&nbsp;Mayiladuthurai, at the end of which she was ridden of her curse and became known as &quot;Abhayambal&quot;. It is believed that&nbsp;Brahma,&nbsp;Lakshmi, sage&nbsp;Agastya,&nbsp;Manmatha, birds and animals worshipped Mayuranathar.

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