Panchavan Madeviyar Pallippadai Temple (Panchavanmadeviswaram) is a Pallippadai temple located at

Pazhayarai Pazhayarai or Pazhaiyarai or Palayarai (Tamil: பழையாறை paḻaiyāṟai) was an ancient capital of the medieval Chola dynasty in Tamil Nadu. The place is located around from Kumbakonam, a city in Thanjavur district, in the South I ...

village near

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District,

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. This Pallippadai temple was built by

Rajendra Chola Rajendra Chola I (; Middle Tamil: Rājēntira Cōḻaṉ; Classical Sanskrit: Rājēndradēva Cōla; Old Malay: ''Raja Suran''; c. 971 CE – 1044 CE), often referred to as Rajendra the Great, and also known as Gangaikonda Chola (Middle Tami ...

for his step mother Panchavan Madeviyar

History

Panchavan Madeviyar is one of the many wives of

Rajaraja the Great Rajaraja I (947 CE – 1014 CE), born Arunmozhi Varman or Arulmozhi Varman and often described as Raja Raja the Great or Raja Raja Chozhan was a Chola emperor who reigned from 985 CE to 1014 CE. He was the most powerful Tamil king in South ...

. After her death, her step son, Rajendra Chola rested her body here & built a Shiva temple on top of it. This temple was at bad state till 1978 when the

Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology (TNSDA) is the archaeology department of the Government of Tamil Nadu. Founded in 1961, the department is headed by an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer with the designation Commissioner for Ar ...

renovated the temple.

References

Chola Empire Chola architecture Temples in India {{India-religious-struct-stub