Kumbakonam (TN)

Tam: கும்பகோணம் kumpakōṇam  ‘Cosmic Pot Corner’   City, Tamil Nadu From Tam: kumpam, ‘small water-jar’, ‘sacrificial pot’, ‘pinnacle (of a temple’; and  kōṇam, ‘angle’, ‘corner’. Every twelve years hundreds of thousands of devotees flock to the holy town of Kumbakonam...