About Kanchipuram CIty:

One of the ‘Seven Sacred Cities (Mokshapuris) of India’,  Kanchipuram, also known as Kanchi, is regarded as the golden city of a thousand  temples.  Being the only city sacred to  both Shaivites (Shiva worshippers) and Vaishnavas (devotees of Vishnu), it  continues to amaze the visitors with its transcendental temples with their  sculptures and architectural beauty.

 

Kanchipuram  city is also famous for the vast number  of looms which spin out hand woven priceless Kanchipuram silk and gold sarees, counted  among the finest textiles of India and globally respected sarees. 

 

Kanchipuram was the historical capital of the Pallavas during the 7th - 9th centuries. Most of the temples are built during Pallava period.

Kanchipuram was an ancient centre of higher learning and was the only notable city in South India for this purpose. The other ancient centres of learning that can be compared on par with Kanchi were Nalanda (in Bihar) and Taxila (now in Pakistan).

The inscriptional evidences reveal the fact the organized learning institutions were called by the names such as ‘Ghatikas’ and ‘Mutts’. The institution of Ghatika was the unique contribution of Kanchipuram to which princess and nobility from various kingdoms were sent to pursue higher education. It was an establishment which comprised groups of holy and learned Brahmanas probably in each case founded by a king; It was a college of learned Brahmanas; It was an institution where students strove after higher knowledge.