tanjavur - tanjapuri or tanjaapuri ?

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baalaganesh
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tanjavur - tanjapuri or tanjaapuri ?

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What would or should be the sanskrit name of tanjaavur ? Is it to be translated as tanjapuri or tanjaapuri ? Shri Dikshita used tanjapuri.

venkatakailasam
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Re: tanjavur - tanjapuri or tanjaapuri ?

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Sthala Puranam ..

read at

http://www.srivaishnava.org/ddesam/tanjaimk/sthala.htm

" He also prayed that, the place where he was going to be killed should be named Tanjapuri. "

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