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Manakula Vinayagar Temple   Puducherry


About Manakula Vinayagar Temple

Manakula Vinayagar Sanctuary is a Hindu temple in the Union Region of Puducherry, India. Committed to the god Ganesa, it is a well known journey site and vacationer goal in Puducherry. The temple is of extensive artifact and originates before French control of the region. Amid the residency of Dupleix, there were endeavors to crush the temple however the temple was at last saved attributable to solid challenges from the Hindu populace and the danger of English and Maratha attack of the region. 

Manakula Vinayagar Temple was in presence before the French came and settled in Pondicherry i.e. before 1666. As indicated by folklore, Ruler GANESHA is named in 16 sorts in view of his different structures out which this god confronting the east drift close Cove of Bengal it has been named as Bhuvaneshar Ganapathy, now called as Manakula Vinayagar. 

In Tamil 'Manal' implies sand and 'Kulam' implies lake close to the ocean, earlierly which was brimming with sand around lake. So the general population called the god as Manal Kulathu Vinayagar [means God close to the lake of sand]. Later it is named as MANAKULA VINAYAGAR.

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