Alagar Kovil

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Alagar Kovil is a village in Madurai district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The village is centered around Kallalagar Temple. Constructed in the Tamil architecture, the temple is glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE. It is one of the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu, who is worshiped as Kallalagar and his consort Lakshmi as Tirumamagal.

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