Vīranārāyaṇapuram (Kāṭṭumannārkōil)

Vīranārāyaṇapuram (modern Kāṭṭumannārkōil), near Chidambaram in the Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, south India. It is the birthplace of Nāthamuni (c. 9th–10th c.), the first of the Śrī Vaiṣṇava ācāryas, who compiled the Tamil hymns of the Āḷvārs into the Nālāyira Divya Prabandham.