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.

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

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7 January 2007 Infocaster, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source and license

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Sanctum Unknown or insufficient evidence · Medium confidence No measured plan is stored. The sanctum is named from the secondary account, not from a drawing.