Sarcarsamakulam, also known as

Kovilpalayam Kovilpalayam {{audio, Kovilpalayam.ogg is a town located in the banks of river Kousika, 17 kilometers from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, on the Sathyamangalam road (National Highway 209). The Postal name for Kovilpalayam is Sarcarsamakul ...

, is a western suburb in

Coimbatore Coimbatore (Tamil: kōyamputtūr, ), also known as Kovai (), is one of the major Metropolitan cities of India, metropolitan cities in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Noyy ...

in the

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. This town is located 17 kilometers from

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and 12 kilometers from

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, on the

Sathyamangalam Sathyamangalam (also known as Sathy) is a town and municipality in Erode district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Tamil Nadu. It lies on the banks of the Bhavani River, Bhavani river, a tributary of the Cauvery River, Cau ...

Road (National Highway 209). Neighbouring places are

Saravanampatti Saravanampatti is a neighborhood of the Coimbatore city. It lies on the north-eastern part of the city. Saravanampatti is one of the fast-growing neighbourhoods of Coimbatore, because of the proliferation of IT companies in areas such as Sara ...

Kalapatti Kalapatti is a neighborhood of Coimbatore city in Tamil Nadu, India. It is located 17 km North-East direction, within the city limits. Now Kalapatti is merged with Corporation of Coimbatore. Because of an increase of information technolo ...

Vilankurichi Vilankurichi is a neighbourhood in Coimbatore city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, which is recently merged with the Corporation of Coimbatore. Vilankurichi is the IT hub of Coimbatore. Neighbouring places are Peelamedu, Ganapathy, Gandhimana ...

Demographics

India

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, Sarcarsamakulam had a population of 7728. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Sarcarsamakulam has an average literacy rate of 63%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 71%, and female literacy is 56%. In Sarcarsamakulam, 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Politics

It falls under the

Kaundampalayam Assembly Constituency Kavundampalayam is a Tamil Nadu legislative assembly, legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Its State Assembly Constituency number is 117. It is the second largest electorate holding assembly constituency in Tamil ...

Culture

The Kaalakaleshwara Temple, dedicated to

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, lies on the banks of the Kousika River at Kovilpalayam. In this temple can be found Dakshinamoorthy statue which is the largest Dakshinamoorthy. People from all over

and from other states visit on ''Pradosham'' day festivals. Another festival, ''Sura Samharam'', for

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, takes place after the next week of

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festival. Kavayakaliamman Temple is located near the Kaalkaleswarar temple in the same area in the past named as Kavayanpathi, and named after King Kavayan. The temple there is dedicated to the goddess (KALI)

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. The deity is seen holding a ''Thirisoolam'' (trident) and ''Agni'' (fire) in her two hands. In the ''prahara'' of the temple, there are statues of three soldiers sacrificing themselves by cutting their heads with swords. The specialty of the temple is that there is a practice of ''navagandam'' (people sacrificing themselves to the goddess). Fridays of the Tamil months of Aadi (July–August), Thai (January–February), as well as Sundays, full moon days, new moon days, and

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, are auspicious days for the temple. This is a family deity or folk deity of fourteen clads of the kongu regions as called from the early Chola periods. Other temples include SakthiMariamman Temple and Veeramachi Amman Temple in between the township and in the east "Patthuraasi amman" temple and Mahalakshmi amman temple. All these temples are located in between the township of kovilpalayam. This area predominantly agricultural area and was lastly before the British was ruled by "palayakarerkal". SriKaalakaleswara temple was built by Chola kings during their rule of kongu region, who had built big temples like "Bragadeeshwara" and later all maintained by the Kongu kings. The principal Deity Lord Kaalaeswarar is "syambulingam" said to be worshiped by "Markendayan" who deferred his death on worshiping Kaakaleswarer.

Education

The major educational institutes are: * GRG Polytechnic College * Info Institute of Engineering * The Indian Public School * Kovai vidyashram CBSE school * Swathantra Higher Secondary School

References

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External links

* http://www.india9.com/i9show/-Tamil-Nadu/Kovilpalayam-80733.htm * http://www.india9.com/i9show/Kaalakaaleswarar-Temple-43797.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999 * http://wikimapia.org/13253869/KovilPalayam-Sarkar-Samakulam Cities and towns in Coimbatore district Suburbs of Coimbatore