Submitted By Prof Kana.Chitsabesan on Dec 27, 09Īdhi Sevugan Chettiar of this village built Thiruvenkadamudaiyan Temple here. The great (late) Radhakrishnan Chettiar who is known for arbitration and the present famous Engineer Nachiappan whose son Sathappan who is famous architect in Singapore belongs to this village. who began his career as Tamil lecturer in Thiagarajar college Madurai who then had his Doctorate from Trivandrum university and who then taught Tamil in Poland and finally retired form Annamalai University belongs to this place. Many towns in Chettinad are called with the suffix of Kottai. valam kuraiyaatha kottai meaning finally the fortress which has a rich ever-lasting wealth. It must have been ulavaak kottai which became alavaakottai. Submitted By Karuppiah.Chidambaram on May 22, 11Īnother name of Alavakkottai was Abarana-Nallur. Later during Sivagangai kingdom rule, since the kingdom’s jewel storage treasury boxes were in the village, it was called ‘Aabarana nallur’ and later that too was changed and called as Alavakottai, as of now. He greeted the fort like houses in the village as Alaivai Kottai.

He ate them and also experienced with Palm fruits’ good taste.

At that time, Palms fruit fell into the water-body. Abarna nallur is another name of aalavakkottaiĭuring 17th century, when Kavi Chakravarthy Kambar was travelling from Chola kingdom to Pandiya kingdom, he took rest for a while near the waving Alavai Kanmai.

Yaathum oore yaavarum kelir meaning