Nagaraja Temple

Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu Hindu worship of Nagaraja, with Jain figures remaining in the mandapa

Served from the stored corpus. Last scan Sep 28, 2026. Next scan Oct 28, 2026.

“The city’s older name, Nagarkoyil, is explained as the temple of the nagas.”

Editorial summary of the published place-name explanation. Not an inscription.

Temple from outside

Photograph · exterior · 7 January 2007 · High confidence

Color photograph of the Nagaraja Temple at Nagercoil, taken in January 2007.

A view of the temple at Nagercoil. It does not show the sanctum interior.

Infocaster, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Source: Nagaraja Temple, Nagercoil, 2007 · Open source

Grounds, tree, and serpent stones

Photograph · exterior · 18 February 2021 · High confidence

Color photograph of a large tree in the Nagaraja Temple grounds at Nagercoil, with carved serpent stones set around its platform.

Earliest photograph in this record that can be republished. It was taken at the temple and shows a large tree with carved serpent stones around its platform. It does not show the sanctum or a measured elevation.

A.S. Thanumaleayan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Source: Nagaraja Temple, Nagercoil, 2021 · Open source

Identification note

encyclopedia · Retrieved 27 September 2026 · paraphrase

The article identifies the temple in Nagercoil, names Nagaraja as the presiding deity, and discusses Jain figures and later Hindu shrines. This corpus stores that identification. It does not transcribe the inscriptions the article cites.

Open source