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Shiva's sixty-four games in Madurai

The Tamil Thiruvilaiyadal Puranam turns Shiva into Madurai's own god, who walks into the city in disguise across the reigns of fifty-two Pandya kings.

Shiva, Meenakshi, Sundareswarar, Nakkeerar

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