Highlights
- Vanchinathaswamy Temple, Srivanchiyam — A Shiva temple on the southern bank of the Cauvery, revered as the 70th Paadal Petra Sthalam in the 7th-century Tevaram hymns. It is one of very few temples with a separate shrine for Yama, the god of death, seated beside Chitragupta. Regarded as a Mukti (Moksha) Sthalam where those who die are believed to attain liberation, it draws pilgrims performing death and ancestral rites.




