Sholavandan

Sholavandan is a panchayat town in Madurai area in the Indian territory of Tamil Nadu. It is situated on the left bank of the Vaigai River, sixteen miles north west of Madurai. It is one of 12 "town-panchayats" of Madurai region. The town has been differently alluded to as "Sholavandan", "Solaikuruchi" and "Senagapuri". Amid the Sangam time frame, the town had a place with Pandya Kingdom.

There is a mainstream neighborhood legend that a war among Chola and the Pandya kingdoms, brought about the name. The prime control of the general population is Agriculture. This agribusiness profits by the entrance to the flooded water of Vaigai waterway, through the Peranai controller in Dindigul District. Sholavandan lies on the left bank of the waterway Vaigai.

The waterway abandons its easterly course, to curve and travel in a north– south heading at Sholavandan - before turning south east and streaming towards Madurai city. Sholavandan can be expressed to lie in a type of a valley - between the Nagamalai slopes and the Sirumalai. Both these slopes can be maybe depicted as goads of the Western Ghats. Sholavandan is additionally the name of a backwoods go under Madurai division. The slopes have a few tracts as held woodlands, which is delegated a dry deciduous timberland.