Sunday 10 August 2014

Tirunelveli

Nellai




Tirunelveli is a municipal corporation, it is sixth largest city in tamilnadu.
(after Chennai,madhurai,Coimbatore,trichy & salem) in southern india. It is the headquarters of Tirunelveli district. This city is considered as an ancient Indian subcontinent the history that dates leads to 1000 B.C. the city is situated on the west bank of thamirabarani river.

In 1560 the town was remodeled by vishwanatha the founder of nayak dynasty who also built many temples in it. Tirunelveli was earliest pandiya’s capital.in 16th and 17th century the nayak rule from Tirunelveli to Madurai and in 18th century also.

Pandiyas kingdom was more important next to Madurai and he served Tirunelveli for some time (if the boundary of the town is made with stone like a war gate it will not be natural beauty nor keeping the surrounding fenced with rice field ) said by a tamil poet tiru-nel-veli.

As such the town was called as “Nelveli”  i.e., Paddy Hedge.since the temple in town dedicated to Lord Siva thus the city is said to be Thiru-nel-veli. The Tirunelveli city has another name “Halwa city”, because the city is very famous for wheat based halwa.

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