For Kanchipuram, City of a Thousand Temples.
Kailasanathar Temple
Flanked by its belt of defensive jungles is that city
Whose doors are never closed to those who seek the prize
Lovely like the pericarp of the many-petalled lotus
The navel of the dark-hued Lord.....
(From the Sangam poem Perumbanatruppadai, translated by N. Raghunathan)