History of the Ancient Pandya Temple in Chinnamanur

There is a saying of the famous Tamil Poetess Auvaiyar that ‘men ought not to live in places where there are no temples' and Devaram also mentions that ‘places without temples are unfit for the purposes of residence, as they are merely deserts'. Hence the popular saying is “No temple, no village”. So in ancient India each place of habitation, whether a hamlet or a city, had to maintain its own temple for the prosperity of the inhabitants.