Kankuveli

Kankuveli is an ancient Tamil village near <a href="/facts/Trincomalee/umXBPT5c">Trincomalee</a> city. It is located close to <a href="/facts/Thoppur/sKLPCad8">Thoppur</a>. It was part of the <a href="/facts/Jaffna_kingdom/n554tFlU">Jaffna kingdom</a>'s <a href="/facts/Vannimai/pxtRBEuv">Vannimai</a> districts throughout the medieval period, and was part of the Malabar Coylot Wanees Country by the 18th century. Kankuveli is home to a large water reservoir, Kankuveli Kulam. The 13th century CE <a href="/facts/Tamil_language/7I0lHL0d">Tamil</a> stone inscription in Kankuveli village records the assignment by Vanniar chiefs Malaiyil Vanniyanar and Eluril Atappar of income and other contributions from the rice fields and meadows of the <a href="/facts/Vannimai/pxtRBEuv">Vannimai</a> districts of the ascending Jaffna kingdom to the <a href="/facts/Koneswaram_temple/EtCXqYIH">Koneswaram</a> shrine.
Kankuveli is also home to the ruins of the ancient <a href="/facts/Siddhar/xTUXdCBl">Siddhar</a> Tamil medical university established by <a href="/facts/Agastya/vXT8Qm03">Agastya</a>, known as the “Agathiyar Thapanam” which alongside Koneswaram and other Hindu temples of Trincomalee District, helped spread Tamil <a href="/facts/Tamraparni/VetYfeHM">Tamraparniyan</a> culture during the pre-classical era.

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Kankuveli