Ilayathangudi Adhistanam Temple, Sivaganga
Ilayathangudi
has the Adhistanam temple of the 65th Shankaracharya of the Kanchi
Matha, His Holiness Pujyasri
Sudarsana Mahadevendra Saraswati. His Holiness Pujyasri Sudarsana Mahadevendra
Saraswati Shankaracharya Swamiji was known as Mahalingam prior to his Sanyasa
and anointment as the 65th Shankaracharya of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam.
He
toured extensively and had gone on pilgrimage touching the borders of
Orissa. The 65th Shankaracharya attained siddhi at Ilayathangudi
in Tamilnadu on Amavasya in the month of Phalguna of the cyclic year Virodhi
(1891 AD). A Temple has been built by the Nattukottai Chettiars on his Samadhi.
It also has a vedapatashala of the Kanchi mutt.
