to 9 p.m., and three yearly festivals on its calendar. The temple has six daily rituals at various times from 5:30 a.m. The temple has three gopuram (gateway towers), three precincts and sixty steps and each one is named after the sixty Tamil years. The shrine of the presiding deity, Swaminathaswamy is located atop a 60 ft (18 m) hillock and the shrine of his mother Meenakshi (Parvathi) and father Shiva (Sundareswarar) is located downhill. The temple is fourth abode of Murugan among six (Arupadaiveedugal). It is located in Swamimalai, 5 km from Kumbakonam, on the banks of a tributary of river Kaveri in Thanjavur District, 290 km from Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India. Swaminatha Swamy Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to god Murugan.
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