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Tirumala Nayak

Tirumala Nayak (திருமலை நாயக்கர்) was a ruler of the Madurai Nayak dynasty in southern India who reigned from 1623 to 1659 and moved the capital to Madurai.

Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (తిరుమల తిరుపతి దేవస్థానములు)

Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (తిరుమల తిరుపతి దేవస్థానములు), or TTD, is a government-administered Hindu temple trust in Andhra Pradesh, India, managing the Venkateswara temple at Tirupati, which draws over 20 million (2 crore) devotees a year.

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (திருமலை கிருஷ்ணமாசார்யா)

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, often called just Krishnamacharya, was an Indian yoga teacher who taught at the Mysore palace from the 1930s and is widely called the father of modern postural yoga.

Tirumalamba

Tirumalamba (తిరుమలాంబ) was a 16th-century Sanskrit poetess and court reader at Vijayanagara under Achyutaraya, author of the Varadambikaparinaya Campu, which celebrates his marriage to Varadambika.

Tirumalisai Alvar

Tirumalisai Alvar, also rendered Tirumazhisai Alvar, was a Tamil Vaishnava poet-saint of South India, counted as the fourth of the twelve Alvars and author of two Divya Prabandham works.

Tirumangai Alvar

Tirumangai Alvar (திருமங்கை ஆழ்வார்) was an eighth-century Tamil Vaishnava poet-saint, the last of the twelve Alvars, whose 1,253 hymns in six Divya Prabandham works include the Periya Tirumozhi.

Tirumantiram (திருமந்திரம்)

The Tirumantiram (திருமந்திரம்) is a Tamil Shaiva scripture of about 3,000 verses attributed to the sage Tirumular, the tenth book of the Tirumurai canon and the earliest known Tamil treatise on yoga.

Tirumular

Tirumular, also known as Sundaranathar (திருமூலர்), was a Tamil Shaivite mystic counted among the Nayanar saints, credited with the Tirumantiram, a poem of over 3,000 verses central to Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta.

Tirumurai

Tirumurai, known in full as Panniru Thirumurai, is the twelve-book canon of Tamil Shaiva devotional hymns and poetry in praise of Shiva, composed between the sixth and twelfth centuries.

Tirumurukarruppatai

Tirumurukarruppatai, also called Pulavararruppatai, is a classical Tamil poem of 317 lines attributed to Nakkirar that praises Murugan, first among the ten Pattuppattu idylls and part of the eleventh Tirumurai of the Tamil Shaiva canon.

Tiruneduntantakam

Tiruneduntantakam (திருநெடுந்தாண்டகம்) is a Tamil devotional poem of 30 verses by Tirumangai Alvar, held to be his last work, and it opens the Adhyayana Utsavam at Srirangam.

Tirunelveli (திருநெல்வேலி)

Tirunelveli (திருநெல்வேலி), also Tinnevelly, is a city on the Tamirabarani river in southern Tamil Nadu and headquarters of Tirunelveli district, formed in 1790, bifurcated into Tuticorin (1986) and Tenkasi (2019), population 18.5 lakh projected 2024.

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Tirunelveli district (திருநெல்வேலி மாவட்டம்)

Tirunelveli Kattabo denotes Tirunelveli District (Tamil: திருநெல்வேலி மாவட்டம்), also called Nellai, a district in southern Tamil Nadu, India: formed 1790, bifurcated 1986 and 2019, an agricultural and wind-energy hub.

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Tirunesh Dibaba

Tirunesh Dibaba (Xurunash Dibaabaa Qananii), Ethiopian distance runner born 1985 in Bekoji; three Olympic golds (2008 5000m/10000m double, 2012 10000m), five world track titles, former 5000m world record 14:11.15.

Tirupati (తిరుపతి)

Tirupati (తిరుపతి), also called Tirupathi, is an Andhra Pradesh city and district headquarters at the foot of the Tirumala Venkateswara temple hills; municipal corporation of about 374,000 people, a major pilgrimage economy, and a Smart City with noted sanitation rankings.

Tiruppalliyelucci

Tiruppalliyelucci (திருப்பள்ளியெழுச்சி; also transliterated Thiruppalliyezhuchi) is a Tamil devotional song genre sung at pre-dawn in Shaiva and Vaishnava temples to wake the deity, the Tamil equivalent of the Sanskrit Suprabatham.

Tiruppan Alvar

Tiruppan Alvar (திருப்பாணாழ்வார்) was a Tamil Vaishnava poet-saint, one of the twelve Alvars devoted to Vishnu, remembered for the ten-verse hymn Amalanatipiran in praise of Ranganatha of Srirangam.

Tiruppavai

Tiruppavai (திருப்பாவை) is a Tamil devotional poem of 30 verses by Andal, the only woman among the twelve Alvar saints, sung through the month of Margazhi.

Tiruppur (திருப்பூர்)

Tiruppur (திருப்பூர்), also spelled Tirupur, is a city in Tamil Nadu, India, and the administrative headquarters of Tiruppur district, known as the Knitwear Capital of India.

Tirutakkatevar

Tirutakkatevar (திருத்தக்கதேவர்) was a Jain poet of the Tamil country, born in the Chola lineage, remembered as the author of the Civaka Cintamani, one of the five great Tamil epics.

Tiruvalangadu copper plates

The Tiruvalangadu copper plates (திருவாலங்காட்டுச் செப்பேடு) are a set of 31 engraved copper plates recording a royal grant issued by the Chola emperor Rajendra Chola I.

Tiruvalangadu copper-plate charter

The Tiruvalangadu copper-plate charter (திருவாலங்காடு செப்பேடு) is a set of 31 copper plates recording Rajendra Chola I's grant of the village of Palaiyanur to a Shiva temple.

Tiruvannamalai (திருவண்ணாமலை)

Tiruvannamalai (திருவண்ணாமலை), also known as Thiruvannamalai, is a temple town in northern Tamil Nadu, India, centered on the Arunachaleswarar Temple at the foot of sacred Arunachala Hill.

Tiruvarutpa

Thiruarutpa (திருவருட்பா, "the holy songs of grace") is the collected devotional Tamil poems of Ramalinga Adigal, the Shaiva mystic known as Vallalar, first printed in 1867.

Tiruvarutpayan

Tiruvarutpayan (திருவருட்பயன், "Fruit of Divine Grace") is a Shaiva Siddhanta doctrinal poem in Tamil by Umapati Shivam, one of the fourteen Meykanda shastras, written around the thirteenth or fourteenth century in 100 kural verses.

Tiruvasakam

Tiruvasakam (திருவாசகம், meaning "sacred utterance") is a collection of Tamil devotional hymns to Shiva composed by the ninth-century saint Manikkavacakar, forming the eighth book of the Tirumurai.

Tiruvaymoli

Tiruvaymoli (திருவாய்மொழி, "sacred utterance") is a Tamil devotional poem of 1,102 verses composed by the saint Nammalvar in the ninth century, honored as the Tamil Veda.

Tiruvempavai

Tiruvempavai (திருவெம்பாவை) is a Tamil devotional poem of twenty stanzas to Shiva by the 9th-century poet-saint Manikkavacakar, part of his Tiruvacakam and sung at dawn in Margazhi.

Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam

Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam (திருவிளையாடற் புராணம்) is a Tamil Shaiva temple chronicle by Paranjothi Munivar, composed in the 16th to 17th century, narrating the 64 sacred games Shiva performed at Madurai.