Thirukkavalampadi

Thirukkavalampadi, also called the Gopalakrishna Perumal Temple, is a Vishnu shrine at Thirunangur near Sirkali on the Tamil Nadu coast. Vishnu is worshipped here as the cowherd Krishna, Gopalakrishna, flanked by Rukmini and Satyabhama. The place takes its name from a legend in which Krishna rescued an elephant, kavalam meaning elephant and padi a place.

It is one of the eleven Thirunangur Divya Desams, said to mark the eleven forms Vishnu assumed to calm Shiva's furious dance after the death of Sati. It is glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the canon of the Alvar saints compiled from the 600s to the 800s, above all by Thirumangai Alvar.

Built in the Dravidian style with a three-tiered gopuram, the temple joins the other ten shrines each year in the Thai-month Mangalasasana festival, when their festival images are carried together on Garuda mounts.