Aruppukkottai

Aruppukkottai lies south of Madurai in the Tamil country. It was part of the territory of the Sethupathi rulers of Ramnad, whose authority formed one of the regional powers of southern Tamil Nadu. A palace associated with their later landed estate stood at nearby Palyampatti.

The town is known for cotton weaving and agriculture. Its Meenakshi Chokkanatha Swamy temple is traditionally attributed to the thirteenth-century Pandya ruler Maravarman Sundara Pandyan.