Pattukudi

Pattukudi is a small village near Ayyampettai in Thanjavur District. This village is located under the Puthur Panchayat Board, Papanasam Taluk, Govindanattuchery Vattam, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu State, India Country.

It is located two kilometers inside the State Highway connecting Kumbakonam and Thiruvaiyaru. It is located on the banks of the River Kollidam. This Kollidam river is located in the back side of the village. The road to this small village starts from the place named "Vizhithirarajapuram" or "Kandagarayam" in State Highway Connection Kumbakonam and Thiruvaiyaru. On the front side of the village we have a branch river from Cauveri named "Mannai" River.

This village contains three main temples. The biggest and the ancient one is "Lord Shiva Temple". This Lord Shiva Temple contains the rare idol of "Lord Muruga" with Valli and Theivanai.This village has two other temples one for "Lord Vinayaga/Ganesha" and the other one for "Kaliyamman". This village also has one more temple for priest. People often refer it as "Sabhai". We have four streets named Therku theru, Nadu theru, Keela theru and Mela theru.

As of January 1, 2011, public transport has been made available to this place via bus route 15 connecting this village and Thanjavur. The majority of the people are from Moopanars Community and the people from here access near by village "Ganapathy Agraharam", Ayyampettai, Thiruvaiyaru for their basic needs.

We have a government school educating students from first standard to fifth standard. There are three families in Therku theru [ South Street] which are considered to be the age old families driven by M.Govindaraj Moopanar,M.Subramanian Moopanar and M.Paramasivan Moopanar respectively. These three people are sons of Murugaiya Moopanar. All these people are no more. Most of the people prefer to go outwards from this village for their livelihood.

Access to this village is possigle easily via taxis or autos from either Ganapathy Agraharam or Ayyampettai.

Article written by Arunpandiyan.T,I tried marking the village in Google Maps but they are not allowing me to save the data its getting deleted daily.

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External links

• www.elections.tn.nic.in/pslist/ac172.pdf