Manavasi is a village in

Southern India South India, also known as Dakshina Bharata or Peninsular India, consists of the peninsular southern part of India. It encompasses the States and union territories of India, Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and T ...

n state of

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 ...

between the cities of

Karur Karur () is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Karur is the administrative headquarters of Karur district. It is located on the banks of River Amaravathi, Kaveri and Noyyal. Karur is well known for the export of Home Textile products to ...

and

Trichy Tiruchirappalli () ( formerly Trichinopoly in English), also called Tiruchi or Trichy, is a major tier II city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli district. The city is credited with bein ...

. It is located in the

Karur district Karur District is one of the 38 districts (a district located centrally along the Kaveri and Amaravathi River, Amaravathi rivers) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The main town in Karur District is the city of Karur, which is also the district ...

. It is the location of the Toll Plaza on the Karur - Trichy Highway. One of the oldest Lord Shiva temple is located in Manavasi where Lord Shiva facing west direction. Kaasi, Avinashi and Manavasi is the places where Lord shiva statue facing west direction. Temple called On the way to pidari amman Kovil, Every year Tamil Month aadi 28th, Pankaligal (father side relations) from different part of Tamil Nadu assemble & perform Pooja at night. its happening more than 800 Years. Community called Pillai performing kula deivam pooja for every year 28th date of Aadi month

Notable people

Manavasi Ramaswami Iyer Manavasi Ramaswami Iyer (also known as Saranagati Ramaswami Iyer) was a devotee of Ramana Maharshi. He composed the well-known song ''Saranagati'' in his devotion to Ramana Maharshi, which is still sung by devotees of Ramana Maharshi today. Nativ ...

, a devotee of

Ramana Maharshi Ramana Maharshi (; 30 December 1879 – 14 April 1950) was an Indian Hindu sage and ''jivanmukta'' (liberated being). He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. He was born in Tiruchuli, Ta ...

, is from this village.

References

Villages in Karur district {{Karur-geo-stub