Agarathur is a village in the

Kumbakonam Kumbakonam (formerly spelt as Coombaconum or Combaconum) or Kudanthai is a city municipal corporation in the Thanjavur district in the States of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located from Thanjavur and from Chennai and is the headq ...

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Thanjavur district Thanjavur District is one of the Districts of Tamil Nadu, 38 districts of the States and territories of India, state of Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India. Its headquarters is Thanjavur. The district is located in the delta of the Cauvery River ...

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

. Agarthur is a village near Kumbakonam. It is in Thanjavur district. It is an agriculture village. It has the famous Mahasakthi Mariyamman temple in South Street of Agarathur. The village's people are mostly agriculture workers and engineers. The village has four streets and 700 people. The area of the village is acres. Two types of people there are Padaiyachi and

Parayar Paraiyar, or Parayar or Maraiyar (formerly anglicised as Pariah and Paree), is a caste group found in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and Sri Lanka. Etymology Robert Caldwell, a nineteenth-century missionary and grammarian who ...

. The village temples are Mariyamman, Murugan, Pillaiyar, Muniswarar, Ayyanar, Pidariamman, Sivan and Perumal. It has two pools called and in Tamil. Temple ceremonies happen once yearly. It is a famous temple ceremony for the surrounding 10 villages. Ceremony types are , , , , , . Amman roam four streets 8 days and nights, and the last day and full night they roam with some kacheri like kuravan kurathi, dhenampettai thappu, etc,.

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* Villages in Thanjavur district {{Thanjavur-geo-stub