Silaimān
Silaiman is a panchayat village in Tirupparankunram Mandal (Thiruparankundram) of Madurai District in the Tamil-Nadu state of India.
Silaiman is a panchayat village in Tirupparankunram Mandal (Thiruparankundram) of Madurai District in the Tamil-Nadu state of India. Silaiman is located on the right (south) bank of the Vaigai River, on Route 85 about eight kilometers by road southeast of the city of Madurai, the district headquarters. It is very near to the Keeladi excavation site. Dice made of elephant trunk, ear rings, and thongattan made of gold are examples of the important materials excavated and collected from this site and deposited in Mysore museum. The Tamil Nadu government is taking steps to establish archaeological museums in and around Keeladi village to preserve this kind of material within Tamil Nadu.
In the 2011 census the population was 6,436.
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Worth seeing in and around Silaimān
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Keeladi excavation site
Keezhadi, or Keeladi, is a Sangam period settlement site, where excavation is being carried out by the Archaeological Survey of India and the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology. This site is located near the town of Keezhadi in Sivaganga district, Tamil Nadu, about 12 km southeast of Madurai.
2.1 km · ASI Archaeological site in Tamil Nadu · Wikipedia - 02Vaigai Reservoir
The Vaigai Reservoir, often known as the Viraganoor Barrage Dam, is a major barrage dam constructed across the River Vaigai in Puliyankulam village of Silaiman Panchayat. The dam is 10 km from Madurai city, between Madurai and Sivagangai on the bye-pass road of Rameshwaram National Highway 49.
3.6 km · lake in India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Silaimān
- Airports
- Tiruchirappalli (TRZ), 114 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 180 km · Cochin (COK), 199 km
- Tiruchirappalli → Silaimān119 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · ₹1,070–1,330
- Coimbatore → Silaimān184 km · quickest by road, 4h 11m · ₹1,420–1,770
- Kochi → Silaimān212 km · quickest by road, 6h 16m · ₹1,870–2,340
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No local-transport research exists yet for Silaimān
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Silaimān. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe buses required to get around will all mostly be available in Periyar bus stand and you can also get an auto rickshaw (you should know to negotiate and bargain the cost of the ride) or a cab or rent a car.
- Get aroundAuto rickshaws are readily available in the city and they are not equipped with meters.
From Wikivoyage: Madurai, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Silaimān
Silaimān is 10 km from Madurai, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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