Tiruvettakkudi Sundareshwarar Temple


Tiruvettakkudi Sundareshwarar Temple is a Hindu temple located at Tiruvettakudi in the Karaikal district of the Union Territory of Pondicherry, in India. The presiding deity is Shiva. He is called as Sundareshwarar. His consort is known as
Shantha Nayaki.

Significance

It is one of the shrines of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams - Shiva Sthalams glorified in the early medieval Tevaram poems by Tamil Saivite Nayanar Tirugnanasambandar.

Literary mention

Tirugnanasambandar describes the feature of the deity as: