Kakkayanthope is a village in Ariyankuppam Commune in the Union Territory of

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Geography

Kakkayanthope is bordered by Ariyankuppam River in the north, Veerampattinam in the east,

Manavely Manavely is a Census Town in Ariyankuppam Commune in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India. Geography Manavely is bordered by Kakkayanthope in the north, Veerampattinam in the east, Sankaraparani River in the south and Ariyankuppam (We ...

in the south and

Ariyankuppam Ariyankuppam (also known by its former name Ariancoupom) is a Town, Commune, Sub-Taluk, and Assembly Constituency in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India. The streets in Ariyankuppam are straight and in grid form, similar to Puducherry bou ...

in the West

Demographics

Kakkayanthope has an average literacy rate of 81.49%, male literacy is 88.89%, and female literacy is 74.13%. In Kakkayanthope, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Transport

Kakkayanthope is located at 1.5 km from

- Veerampattinam Road. One can reach Kakkayanthope by any local bus from

Pondicherry Pondicherry, officially known as Puducherry, is the Capital city, capital and most populous city of the Puducherry (union territory), Union Territory of Puducherry in India. The city is in the Puducherry district on the southeast coast of Indi ...

to Veerampattinam.

Road Network

Kakkayanthope is connected to

– Veerampattinam Road.

Tourism

Arikamedu Archaeological Excavation

Arikamedu Arikamedu is an archaeological site in Southern India, in Kakkayanthope, Ariyankuppam Commune, Puducherry. It is from the capital, Pondicherry of the Indian territory of Puducherry. Sir Mortimer Wheeler 1945, and Jean-Marie Casal conducted ...

is an

archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or recorded history, historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline ...

located at a distance of 1 km from

, where

Mortimer Wheeler Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, CH Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire, CIE Military Cross, MC Territorial Decoration, TD (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeolo ...

conducted his best-known excavation in the 1940s. According to Wheeler, Arikamedu was a Tamil fishing village which was formerly a major port dedicated to bead making and trading with

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traders. It flourished for centuries until the Romans left. Various Roman artifacts, such as a large number of

amphora An amphora (; ; English ) is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and packages, tied together with rope and delivered by land ...

e bearing the mark of Roman

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schools VIBII, CAMURI and ITTA, have been found at the site, supporting the view on an ancient trade between

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and the

ancient Tamil country Tamilakam () also known as ancient Tamil country as was the geographical region inhabited by the ancient Tamil people, covering the southernmost region of the Indian subcontinent. Tamilakam covered today's Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Laks ...

. An Archaeological Museum is also present.

Veerampattinam Temple Car Festival

Sri Sengazhuneer Amman Temple (செங்கழுநீர் அம்மன் கோவில்) at Veerampattinam is the abode of Sakti and is the oldest temple in Ariyankuppam. It is located at a distance of 2.5 km from Ariyankuppam. The goddess at the sanctum sanctorum faces the sea while the seven deities face the north. The temple also houses Lord Shiva, Ganapathy and Murugan. A grand festival is celebrated every year for six continuous Fridays starting from the Tamil month of Aadi. Special importance is given to the fifth Friday of the six Fridays and this day is declared as public holiday by the Government of

. On this day, thousands of prigrims throng this holy place to celebrate the festival. Right from the days of the French, it was a custom to invite the Lt. Governor of Puducherry to start the

Temple car Temple cars or Temple chariots are used to carry representations of Hindu deities around the streets of the temple on festival days. These chariots are generally manually pulled by the devotees of the deity. As of 2004, the Indian state Tamil ...

procession by pulling its long rope.

Politics

Kakkayanthope is a part of Ariyankuppam (State Assembly Constituency) which comes under

Puducherry (Lok Sabha constituency) Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency covers the entire Union Territory of Puducherry. Pondicherry became a union territory after the implementation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India in 1962 and changed its name to Puduche ...

References

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External links

Official website of the Government of the Union Territory of Puducherry

Modular type individual houses at Sree Nivas Gardens – Kakkayanthopu, Ariankuppam
Villages in Puducherry district Ariyankuppam