Vanamamalai Perumal Temple

Sri Vanamamalai Perumal Temple
Thiruvaramangai
Religion
Affiliation	Hinduism
District	Tirunelveli
Deity	Thothadrinathan(Vishnu) Varamangai(Lakshmi)
Features	Tower: Nandhavarthana Vimanam
Location
Location	Nanguneri
State	Tamil Nadu
Country	India
Location in Tamil Nadu
Geographic coordinates	8°29′30.9″N 77°39′26.5″E / 8.491917°N 77.657361°E / 8.491917; 77.657361
Architecture
Type	Dravidian architecture

The Vanamamalai Perumal Temple, also known as Arulmigu Sree Vanamamalai Totatri Perumal Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu, in Vanamamalai or Totadrikshetram (Nanguneri), Tamil Nadu, India on the banks of Thamiraparani river. Constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture, the temple is glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE. It is one of the 108 Divya Desams shrines dedicated to Vishnu. Vishnu is worshipped here as Vanamalai Perumal and his consort Lakshmi as Varamanagi.^[1] The temple is believed to have been built by the Pandyas, with later contributions from Vijayanagara kings and Madurai Nayaks. The temple covers an area of 5 acres (20,000 m²) and has a five-tiered temple tower.

The temple is one of the eight Svayambu Kshetrams, the eight temples associated with Vishnu, that manifested on its own. Vanamamalai is believed to have appeared to Adishesha and Garuda. Six daily rituals and a dozen yearly festivals are held at the temple, of which the chariot festival, celebrated during the Tamil month of Chittirai (March–April), is the most prominent. The temple is maintained and administered by the Vanamamalai Mutt.