The sea might have eroded the main land and turned the rock into an island, resulting in the shifting of the old temple to the present site. There is also a belief that the original Kanyakumari temple was built on this rock or somewhere near this and the rock itself was part of the mainland.

Swami Vivekananda came to Kanyakumari on and meditated on this rock for few days before his departure for Chicago to participate in the World Religious Conference in 1893. In the sea just 400 meters offshore, there are two rocks known as ‘twin rocks’, both contributing to the rich Indian heritage with the monuments of Swami Vivekananda and the great Tamil poet Saint Thiruvalluvar. Kanyakumari is essentially a pilgrimage town – a place where people fulfill their spiritual duties. Lakhs of tourists, round the year lured by the serene beauty of this place and the spectacles of sunrise and sunset. Though the sunrise can be viewed round the year, the sunset is visible only from 15, October to 15, March from the southern most tip. Chaitrapurnima (Tamil for the April full moon day) is one of the best times to experience the sunset and moonrise over the ocean in Kanyakumari simultaneously. Pilgrims come here to visit Kanyakumari temple and bath in the sacred water. It’s dedicated to the goddess Devi Kanya, an incarnation of Parvati. Kanyakumari has great spiritual significance for Hindus. ‘Kumari Amman’ a temple is dedicated to virgin goddess Kanyakumari (kanya – ‘lady’, kumari – ‘virgin’). Kanyakumari is a popular pilgrim centre and named after goddess ‘Parvati’, wife of lord ‘Shiva’. east of Trivandrum city, capital of Kerala. kanyakumari is located near the border of Tamilnadu and Kerala. Kanyakumari is also known as Cape Comorin.

A dip in the ‘Triveni Sangam’ (confluence of the three seas) at Kanyakumari is considered holy. Here, the Bay of Bengal meets the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. It is famed for its incomparable geographical location of not only its land’s end, but also for Tri-sea (Arabian sea, Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal) confluence.

Kanyakumari is the ‘Land’s End’ of the Indian subcontinent, located in the state of Tamilnadu in south India.

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