Village Name:	Mayiladuthurai
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District:	Nagapattinam
State:	Tamilnadu

Mayiladuthurai alias Mayuram is a compact town, situated on the banks of Cauvery. It is 280 kms south of Madras and can be reached by trains going via Main line and also through road. Mayiladuthurai is one of the major junctions in Southern railway with lines branching off to Madras, Trichy, Thiruvarur and Tharangampadi. The town was in the composite Thanjavur district but now it is part of Nagappattinam district. It is the headquaters of an Educational district and is one of the 40 parlimentary constituencies in TamilNadu.

Nearest towns from this village are Chidambaram and Tanjore. Mayiladuthurai also called as Mayuram is about 275 KM from chennai. This place is the centre point for most of the temples.The famous Navagraha temples are located around this town.

Legends say that due to a curse, Goddess Parvathi took birth as Peacock and worshiped Lord Shiva ( Mayuranathar ). Mayuram means peacock in sanskrit and it was later translated as Mayiladuthurai in tamil. Lot of sidhars have lived here. Even today we find an area called Sidharkaadu, a suburb of Mayuram. Legends also tell that it was a part of Tharukavanam.

The best part of this town is all kinds of people live in this place.. This place is proud of producing lot of software engineers and I am sure most of the MNC's has atleast one person representing our town. Best of the students cant be produced without quality schools and teachers. This town has lot of schools with devoted teachers.

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