Madurai

Madurai
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At first Madurai was a dense forest, King Kulasekara pandiya was found Madurai. Fish was the flag("Meen kodi") of Pandiya dynasty so they worship"Lord Meenakshi Amman"("Meen refers to fish") , and found Meenakshi temple. The city developed around the temple so the city looks like a lotus,
Madurai was the perfect example of how to built a city. Like other civilizations, Madurai was also developed in the delta of vaigai river. The "Tamil sangam" was founded in old madurai. "Madurai Kanakkayanar", his son "Nakeeran" , "Seethalai chathanar" and Madurai writer "Senthan bhoothan" are the foremost members of "Tamil sangam". "Maduraikkanchi" was the first book in the "Tamil sangam".

Madurai has two thousand years of history, all the ancient literature s mentioned about Madurai and vaigai river . We can pin point the cities which are older like Madurai in the world, Madurai was the capital of it's rulers through 1500 years continuously, At first Madurai the capital of Pandiya dynasty, then the capital of Muslim rulers, then the capital of Nayakkar dynasty. Thirumalai nayakkar was changed their capital to Madurai(before Trichy was the capital for Nayak dynasty) because he was a devotee of "Lord Meenakshi Amman". In the British period only Madurai lost it's capital crown, British found Madurai district in 1768 then Madurai became the district capital .



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