Vettuvan Koil

Vettuvan Koil in Kalugumalai, a panchayat town in Thoothukudi district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. Constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture and rock cut architecture, the unfinished temple is believed to have been built during the 8th century by Pandyas. The rock-cut architecture exemplary of early Pandyan Art. The other portions of Kalugumalai houses the 8th century Kalugumalai Jain Beds and Kalugasalamoorthy Temple, a Murugan temple.Vettuvan Koil is the only one of the monolithic Pandya Temple that still survive

As per local legend, a rivalry between a father and son resulted in son finishing the sculpture first at the lower hills, while the father was slow to respond. In his angst, the father killed the son and thus the shrine remains unfinished.

The temple is maintained and administered by Department of Archaeology of the Government of Tamil Nadu as a protected monument.

Legend

As per local legend, there was a rivalry between a father and son sculptors on who would attain the best specimen. The son started to work on the lower rock for the Murugan shrine, while the father started working uphill. The son claimed that the father would never finish the shrine, which infuriated the father to kill the son. It is believed that the son was able to finish the Murugan temple at the foothills, but the father's work on this temple was incomplete. Another variant of the legend states that the father wanted his son to take time to learn the tricks to start his work. Foregoing the orders of the father, the son started chiselling in the inner chamber. Hearing the sound and raged by the disobedience, the father killed the son. There two literal Tamil meanings to Vettuvan Koil, one of which means "Heaven of sculptors", while the other means the temple of slayer.

Koil

Koil or Koyil or Kovil, (meaning: residence of God) is the Tamil term for a distinct style of Hindu temple with Dravidian architecture. Both the terms koyil (Tamil: கோயில், kōyil ^?) and kovil (Tamil: கோவில், kōvil ^?) are used interchangeably. In Tamil language, kōvil (கோவில் ) is the word derived, according to the rules of Tamil grammar.

In contemporary Tamil, the term is also used to refer to Christian churches. Even non-religious places considered sacred are called kovil by Tamils, for example the shrines built in the memory of Thiruvalluvar (the 2nd century poet-philosopher), or Tamil Thai (translated as Mother Tamil, the revered personification of the language) are called Thiruvalluvar Koil and Tamil Thai Koil respectively.

In modern formal speech, kovils are referred to as aalayams by many Hindus and as devaalayams by Christians. Ambalam is another term used by devotees of the 19th century Tamil monk Vallalar.

To Saivites, the foremost kovils are Chidambaram temple and Koneswaram temple while for Vaishnavites, Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam and Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, Tirupati are viewed as equally important. To Christians the koils considered very important are the Arokkiya Madha Koil (Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health) in Velankanni, Santhome Devaalayam (San Thome Basilica) in Chennai and the Poondi Madha Koil (Poondi Madha Basilica) in Thiruvaiyaru.

Koil (band)

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Koil is an Indonesian rock band. Formed in Bandung, West Java in 1993 by singer J.A Verdijantoro (Otong), his brother, guitarist Donnijantoro (Doni), and two of their friends bassist/guitarist Ibrahim Nasution (Imo) and drummer Leon Ray Legoh (Leon).

History

Early years

Koil released their first recording material, a mini album called Demo From Nowhere in 1994. This mini album was released in limited copies due to short of funds. Two years after their first effort, a major label named Project Q offered the band a contract for releasing album. Koil started recording their first full album and released it in September 1996. Most of songs in this album were taken from their previous mini album Demo From Nowhere.

In 1997, Koil’s partnership with Project Q was ended. Deciding to go their own way, Koil released a single called Kesepian Ini Abadi (This Loneliness stays immortal) through their selfmade independent label, Apocalypse Record. This label was founded by Otong and a close friend of the band, Adam Vladvamp of the band Kubik.

Koil (Assembly constituency)

Koil Assembly constituency (Hindi: कोइल विधान सभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Aligarh district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Aligarh (Lok Sabha constituency). First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1952 after the "DPACO (1951)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1951. After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008, the constituency was assigned identification number 75.

Wards / Areas

Extant of Koil Assembly constituency is KC Koil, PC Bhamola Mafi of Morthal KC & Ward Nos. 7, 22, 28, 30 to 34, 36, 40 to 44, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53 & 57 in Aligarh (M Corp.) of Koil Tehsil.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections

See also