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Abode 03 · The Ascetic — Gnana Pazham
பழனி தண்டாயுதபாணி சுவாமி கோயில்Palani Dhandayudhapani Swamy Temple
MoolavarDhandayudhapani Swamy (the Ascetic)தண்டாயுதபாணி சுவாமி
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LocationPalani, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu
FestivalsThaipusam, Panguni Uthiram, Kavadi
Sthala Mahātmyam
Atop the Sivagiri hill, Palani enshrines Murugan as Dhandayudhapani — the renunciate who, after losing the contest for the fruit of wisdom (gnana-pazham) to his brother Ganesha, cast off all ornament and stood as a staff-bearing ascetic. 'Pazham nee' — 'you are the fruit' — is the phrase that names Palani. The hill idol is famed as a navapashanam (nine-medicine) amalgam attributed to the siddhar Bogar. Thaipusam draws vast kavadi pilgrimages here.
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